Talk:street

in

Who wrote these usage notes, and is there any reason I shouldn't just erase them? DAVilla 05:20, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Not without adding in the street and on the street, both of which seem to me to have (overlapping or the same) idiomatic meaning. DCDuring Holiday Greetings! 12:21, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

street/avenue

Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south, and avenues are frequently wider than streets.

Isn't this caused by the geography of Manhattan? I'm pretty sure that if the island would have been oriented east-west the avenues would have been oriented east-west too. — This comment was unsigned.

Fixed. --WikiTiki89 22:35, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Stockbrokers

Chambers 1908 also defines it as "the body of brokers", presumably a case of metonymy as when we talk about Wall Street. Equinox ◑ 03:28, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

on the streets

British English
a.  earning a living as a prostitute
b.  homeless
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/on-the-streets

--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:07, 8 May 2020 (UTC)