📒 a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides
- along/down/up the street I was just walking along the street when it happened.
- She lives just up the street here.
- across the street The bank is just across the street.
📒 the ideas and opinions of ordinary people, especially people who live in cities, which are considered important
- The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election.
- The word on the street is that it's not going to happen.
- Opinion on the street was divided.
📒 an average or ordinary person, either male or female
- Politicians often don't understand the views of the man in the street.
- What really matters to the man and woman in the street?
📒 enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money
📒 without a home; outside, not in a house or other building
- the problems of young people living on the streets
- If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago.
- She was thrown onto the street.
📒 working as a prostitute
📒 much better or more advanced than somebody/something else
- a country that is streets ahead in the control of environmental pollution
- Beth is streets ahead of all the other students in her year.
📒 used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place
📒 very suitable for you because it is something that you know a lot about or are very interested in
- This job seems right up your street.