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HUBLOT Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Up your street



Then a new Corrie-themed afternoon tea could be right up your street. (http://goo.gl/KtlCjZ)

What does this sentence mean? Does it mean the tea could be above the street that the photo shows?
  

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HUBLOT Then a new Corrie-themed afternoon tea could be right up your street. gl/KtlCjZ ) What does this sentence mean? Does it mean the tea could be above the street that the photo shows?

— Thomas Tompion

  • HUBLOT Then a new Corrie-themed afternoon tea could be right up your street.
  • gl/KtlCjZ ) What does this sentence mean?
  • Does it mean the tea could be above the street that the photo shows?
  • Hello Hublot.
  • It's an idiom; it means something one particularly likes - it's right up your street (it's something which I know you in particular will like).
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HUBLOTThen a new Corrie-themed afternoon tea could be right up your street. (http://goo.gl/KtlCjZ ) What does this sentence mean? Does it mean the tea could be above the street that the photo shows?
Hello Hublot.

It's an idiom; it means something one particularly likes - it's right
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HUBLOTright up your street
Also, in North America, "right up your alley". (= just what you like)

CJ
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HUBLOTDoes it mean the tea could be above the street that the photo shows?
This is of a piece with 'buns' (cheeks of Bet's bottom) and 'cheesy platt' (Gail's modish hairstyle).

More formally, buns and plait are types of bread.
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Thanks a lot, Thomas and CJ.

Is "right up your street" British English?
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HUBLOTIs "right up your street" British English?
It's certainly British English. Whether or not it's used in other forms of English I'm not qualified to say.
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