Heard on [adult swim]: "street" to "alley"?

[Chris Waigl]

On 20 May 2009, at 07:03, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> "Announcer" spoofing the BBC on Lookaround U, a Brit comedy show:
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> "Wherever your _alley_, we are right up it."
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> Among the *very* few people from the various branches of the past and
> present kingdom that I've known, I've heard, "right up your _street_"
> and "right up your _road_," but, never before, "right up your alley,"
> except from Canadians.

I hear "up one's alley" a lot here in the UK, too (but then, I do work
with Canadians). It is what I'd spontaneously choose, for some unknown
reason, though a quick Google shows "up one's street" to be more
common in some chosen UK sources (and "up one's road" less so).

Chris

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