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Downing Street
[Named after Sir George Downing (c 1624–1684), British diplomat.]
A short street in London running out of Whitehall towards St. James's Park and containing the Foreign Office and the official residence (No. 10) of the prime minister; hence used as a synonym for the Government (or the prime minister, or Foreign Office) of the day.
1781A. Storer Let. 1 Mar. in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1897) App. VI. 467 Even though Lord North reject my application, or neglect the good-natured interference of those friends, who..have no small weight in Downing Street. 1831Ld. Palmerston Let. 1 Mar. in H. L. Bulwer Palmerston (1870) II. viii. 48 The French..need not wish to have truer or warmer friends than they now have in Downing Street. 1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xxxi. 308 Look! here comes the Foreign Express galloping in. They will be able to give news to Downing Street to-morrow. 1858Leisure Hour 18 Nov. 728/1 The decrees and counsels of Downing Street will be heard simultaneously in Pekin or Canton. 1920K. Jones Fleet St. & Downing St. 330 Thus would Fleet Street and Downing Street at last understand one another. 1920E. H. Begbie Mirrors of Downing St. 7 The private opposition he [sc. Lloyd George] encountered in Downing Street. 1971B. Graham Spy Trap xvi. 112 Dmitrov..instructed him to watch for a memorandum from Downing Street. |