alley
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1. alley - Noun
2. Alley - Proper noun
Meaning
A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
A choice taw or marble.
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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain", into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.