mean streets
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeanandstreet
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mean
adjective
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mainly UK
not willing to give or share things, ...
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street
noun[C]
uk/striːt/us/striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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(Definition ofmeanandstreetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was in ameanstreetbut inhabited by decent working people.
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That willmeanstreetfighting.
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The houses are badly arranged in mean streets, and they are mean houses and nothing can be done in regard to reconditioning them.
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There is very often in quite mean streets a great deal of profiteering.
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I have often wandered through the mean streets of towns and cities and seen the dull, drab appearance of the rows of houses.
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They are sometimes described as slums, consisting of mean streets concentrated in a particular part of the town.
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If they cannot do it to-day, nobody can do it, and this fair land will become a place of patchwork, mean streets and smallholdings.
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The surrounding area can be described bleakly as "inner city" with a patchwork of mean streets and many signs of social and economic deprivation.
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Are you going to make a change there in the coalfields and in the mean streets of the towns and cities?
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It gives them an opportunity to get away from terraced houses and comparatively mean streets into the country.
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Houses were built around the pitheads and mean streets of drab and dreary dwellings came into existence.
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But we want to help the spread of art in our mean streets.
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The spirit underlying this proposal is the same spirit which has given us this wilderness of mean streets, of stuccoed villas, and back-to-back; slum houses.
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Some—and it would be invidious to name any—are a rather dreary collection of mean streets, redeemed only by the spirit of their people.
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They live on mean streets.
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In other words, we have to appeal again, in the main, to the people from the mean streets and back streets, the people who do the really hard, productive work.
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They have overcome immense difficulties and have tackled with vigour and success a heritage of bad houses: and mean streets left to them by previous generations.
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These mean streets were built of concrete, not asphalt.
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