the red-light district

red-light district

An area in a city containing brothels and other businesses related to activities that are typically illegal elsewhere. If you patronize the red-light district, you're essentially subsidizing the sex trade.
See also: district
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the red-ˈlight district

the part of a city where prostitutes work and sex shops are found: I got lost and found myself in the red-light district all alone!
See also: district
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • district
  • red-light district
  • any (one) worth (one's) salt
  • keel over
  • pointy
  • bless your pointy little head
  • young man
  • walk it off
  • walk off
  • heavy on
References in periodicals archive
Past efforts to control the red-light district have been opposed by sex workers and businesses involved in the trade.
The Groups are off to Ibiza to sing for Louis Walsh, and 'accidentally' end up in the red-light district! Simon Cowell will mentor the Girls category for the first time at his place in Malibu, with the help of Mel B and Emma Bunton.
In which German city is the red-light district centred on the Reeperbahn?
West Yorkshire Police is also writing to car owners seen cruising the red-light district in a bid to cut the number of kerb crawlers.
It has also launched an educational support program that enrolls the red-light district children in school.
The jury was also driven around the red-light district where some of the women are thought to have been when they vanished.
In Pompeii sex wasn't something confined to the red-light district. Integrated rote every minute of everyday ire.
[61] First, in both the red-light district and the company town, the workers had to buy either directly from their employer or an allied subsidiary.
Detectives will flood the red-light district and Drumpellier Park tonight in a bid to trace people who may have been in these areas last week.
The same thing happened in the red-light district. Om used his celebrity.
A residents' association near the red-light district has offered a room and organisers have appealed for volunteer teachers for the six to eight-month courses.
September in undergrowth at the junction of Crown Street and West Derby Street in the heart of the red-light district.
Rogers even dresses as a Dominatrix, and reveals how some men just can't stay away from the red-light district.
"I don't know why they went on to the red-light district. It's an area where Dutch school children would rarely be taken as it can be quite dangerous.
(4) "Sonsbeek '93" (Arnhem, Holland) To US curator Valerie Smith, freedom of choice for the invited artists was the virtual modus operandi, which meant that Mike Kelley got to curate a full-scale museum exhibition; Irene and Christine Hohenbuchler collaborated with local prisoners; Juan Munoz broadcast a radio play from the Sonsbeek Park; Keith Piper set up his video installation in a former church in the red-light district; and Yuri Leiderman bicycled around the region, faxing regular reports back to the museum.