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asphalt jungle
noun
a large city US, 1920
The title of a 1949 book by W. R. Burnett as well as an ABC television series starring Jack Warden in 1961.- Shall we take a new stance toward the City and its mass culture – a tougher stance, a more nervy one – so that we may learn to live more gracefully and meaningfully in this Asphalt Jungle we have constructed around us? — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 2, 28 December 1952: “Letter to editor”
- “I’m not anxious. I’ve been waiting too long,” her owner and skipper Bradford Simmons said. “I’m free of the asphalt jungle.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 17, 19 November 1964
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