On May 20, 2009, at 6:08 AM, i wrote: >> > "right up your alley" is my only usage. goggling gets 431k raw hits > for "alley", 64k for "street", none for "road". sorry. make that 181 (not 181k, 181) for "road". arnold ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org