in the neighborhood
Synonyms
Examples
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
An important point is that the p-adic field, or respectively the real or complex field, corresponding to a prime ideal, plays exactly the role, in arithmetic, that the field of power series in the neighborhood of a point plays in the theory of functions: that is why one calls it a local field.
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.