The Oxford DMS, again
    Wilson Gray 
    hwgray at GMAIL.COM
       
    Wed Feb 20 14:19:42 UTC 2008
    
    
  
The DMS contains the expression, "right up [someone's] alley," without
any indication that it might be more common in the AmE than in BrE.
The expression may very well be just as common in BrE as in AmE, for
all that I know.
However, there is no mention whatsoever of the expression, "right up
[someone's] _street_," one that I've heard used exclusively by BrE
speakers.
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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