| 单词 | to have the key of the street |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have the key of the street P10. slang. to have the key of the street and variants: to be shut out for the night, to have no home to go to. ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlvi. 499 It's too late now. You can't get in to-night; you've got the key of the street, my friend. 1894 G. Parker Transl. Savage 161 A crossing sweeper early to his task, or holding the key of the street. 1929 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. H. de Man Joy in Work vi. 213 The wage worker knows that from day to day or from week to week he may be given the key of the street. 1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 11 A key to the street each convict has. 1992 K. Roberts Kaeti on Tour 161 The key of the street, that's what she'd be getting. < as lemmas |
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