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inside the Beltway noun literally, the area of Washington D.C. surrounded by a motorway known as the Capital Beltway; figuratively, the Washington political and journalistic establishment US, 1977- “It’s never good to be inside the Beltway,” said Robert Squier, a political consult. “Inside the Beltway” is what one politican accuses another of being after he’s just come back from a visit to his home state. — New York Times, p. A16, 29 May 1985
- It is that splendid region called Outside the Beltway. Why so wonderful? Because that’s where the real people live. The place inhabited by the other kind of people is called Inside the Beltway. — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. E3, 20 May 1990
- I’m tired to talking to experts who never set foot outside the beltway. — Traffic, 2000
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