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

[Randy Alexander]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> There's even a negative form of the expression:
>
> "This is not un-up your alley."
> (Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997, p. 202)

Isn't that more of a double-negative form?

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