cement city

cement city

n. a cemetery. I’m too young to end up in cement city.
See also: cement, city
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Headstone City
  • put on a good, poor, wonderful, etc. show
  • put on a good/poor/etc. show
  • The City that Never Sleeps
  • pied-à-terre
  • look me up when you're in town
  • the Eternal City
  • slicker
  • city slicker
  • walk the streets
References in periodicals archive
"In the first two months of Q2 2018, 15 cement companies have reported a y-o-y decline in sales volume, led by Riyadh Cement (-44.1% y-o-y) and Cement City (-37.5%), while only two companies have reported an increase viz Tabuk Cement (+82.4% y-o-y) and Hail Cement (+28.7%)," it outlined.
KSA cement sector to see a fall in revenue for Q2 2018
Summary: A total of three events will seek to cement city's position as the capital of a green global economy
Dubai's focus turns to the environment as Green Week arrives
Adnan and countless others have grabbed pens, markers, spray paint and pieces of coal and turned cement city walls into their personal canvasses.
Political rants, love poems and curse words....... Grafitti in Sana'a: artistic expression or eyesore?
After a history of conflict and mismanaged urban construction, Hamad said, much of Beirut has turned into a cement city, with little regard for aesthetics or planned architecture.
Beirut is Amazing project aims at greening the capital
Cement City, Dhahran: a sea of mud, false alarms/rumors, hoarding toilet paper, personalizing cardboard liners for the chemical toilets, hand-washing uniforms at a factory water outlet, meals in the largest tent in the world ...
ODS slideshow (1991)
Toure struck 16 minutes from time to cement City's place at the head of the table.
YES YES IT'S YAYA; Toure keeps the City tit tle bandwagon on track
COLONIAL ERA NARRATIVES, photographs and recent retrospectives of Mozambique's capital city, Lourenco Marques, portray it as two cities: the white city, called the cidade de cimento (cement city), and the black city, called the bairros do canico, the neighborhoods where most homes were build of bamboo-like reeds called canico.
He had lived in the bairros de canico with his black mother until he was six and then moved into the cement city to be educated and raised by his white father and stepmother.
Through piecemeal articulation of legislation that cumulatively became known as the indigenato, the municipal and colonial government sorted out Mozambique's population by status and race parallel to the process of centering and securing the cement city, while simultaneously disadvantaging and blurring the bairros de canico.
Two tales of a city: Lourenco Marques, 1945-1975
But, more importantly, it would cement City's place in the play-offs, while fifth-placed Swansea are in a scrap with the likes of Leicester, Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Doncaster and Sheffield United.
LET'S DO IT ALL AGAIN - JONES; Bluebirds manager would like a Swans reunion in the play-offs
One of those is Riquelme - with Eriksson declaring a real intent to cement City's impressive start to the season with a a determined bid to land the Argentinian.
Football: HOTLINE - Riquelme lined up in pounds 6M Sven raid; EXCLUSIVE BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
This development continues to cement City & Northern's position within the North-East as a major player within the commercial property market, following on from other recent developments, including the pounds 45m Gateshead Quays project, Baltic Place.
Ward Hadaway pilot City & Northern safely into Market Dock
Lillian, 75, still lives in a colliery house in a former pit village known to locals as Cement City. It was built in the 1950s and is just yards from where the pit once stood, but many of the houses are now vacant.
Community's spirit has died
Forty residents over 60 in Clubmoor's Lark Hill area of Liverpool and St Helens' Cement City in Parr have had new central heating, insulation, double glazing and low energy light bulbs installed.
Warmer homes improve health of pensioners
And Geoff Horsfield's magic strike just before the break, his fifth of the season, appeared to cement City's supremacy.
Football: HONEST TREV; BIRMINGHAM 2 HUDDERSFIELD 1: Brum boss enjoys win from 'poor day at office'