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alley
noun- a fictional place characterised by the preceding thing or activity US
- Today our readers are getting a preview of a case before it comes up in Alimony Alley, as the divorce courts sometimes are called. — San Francisco News, p. 2, 9 September 1954
- Ulcer Alley, the big time in Ad Row, is quivering at all the firings at one big agency. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 29, 26 January 1962
- in horse racing, a stall in the starting barrier AUSTRALIA, 1982
- The filly is certain to lead from another good alley today but Pallamallawa will be parked right on her hindquarters. — Sydney Morning Herald, p. 2, 25 June 1994
- on the railways, the track visible ahead of a train US
- So down “The Alley” one can’t steam / Until the green light is agleam. — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 2, 1975
- a walkway between rows of prison cells US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 7, 1992
- a playing marble AUSTRALIA
- “Give yer a game of alleys, glassies up,” challenged Pigeon. — Norman Lindsay, Saturdee, p. 124, 1934
- He never could have played marbles in the country where he’d been born, on the other side of the world; he’d have known an ally pitched right could put out an eye. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 20, 1969
▶ make your alley good
to improve your situation; to redeem yourself in the eyes of others AUSTRALIA, 1924- “Soon’s I’ve made my alley good with Howie, this is what happens to Jake.” He drew a long pale finger across his throat. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 31, 1969
▶ up your alley
apt to your style or taste US, 1924- If the whole Big Brother circus has left you cold, on the other hand, perhaps Pig Brother is up your alley. — The Guardian, 27 July 2001
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