I'm afraid I am one who thinks these things into a sort of inner peace. Bringing the vehicle to a full stop? Brake on, no forward motion. To make that stop complete, one must apply the handbrake and switch off the engine. Innit?
Yesterday I was forced to listen, yet again, to a group of folk on a train howling against the phrase in the tannoy announcement "the next station stop will be..." One of them actually shrieked "aaagh! I hate that - station and stop are the same thing!" I rose from my seat like a pantomime fairy and bellowed "Oh, no they're not!"
"Think," I growled "about what he actually said" -
We are now approaching Cardiff Central; Cardiff Central will be our next station stop.
Trains often stop before pulling into stations. They wait to be swtiched onto the right track for the platform, they may have to wait for another train to go out before they can come in. Even with the announcement I have seen folk panicking because the train is stationary and the doors appear to be jammed...
What is needed to make all plain is for the train manager to stress the line correctly and, failing that, for the passengers to use a little common sense.
Mountain high is harder to justify. I immediately thought of the song lyric wherein I have always believed in the invisible hyphens; river-deep, mountain-high.
The difference between a hill and a mountain is a source of harmless
ho-ho in a film about canny Welsh folk outwitting an English person (which is always good for a laugh round here) and suggests that there is an argument for graduations of mountainness that would allow of high ones as distinct from barely-to-middling ones on the way to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_En...n_a_ Mountain
However, putting the high after the mountain looks suspiciously rhyme-driven to me.