down the street

idiom

: some distance away on the same street
our neighbor down the street

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For winos, visit Michigan’s oldest winery, St. Julian, which has a tasting room just down the street. Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025 That was the conceit of the first Nobody (2021): what if Hutch Mansell, the schlub down the street, was actually a deadly hitman/operative for the government? Scott Phillips, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 The nerds down the street from the Niners’ facility would say this team is in a state of quantum superposition. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025 In Alien: Earth, wasn’t the Prodigy Search and Rescue team’s reaction to a massive spacecraft crashing into a skyscraper down the street a bit subdued? Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for down the street

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“Down the street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/down%20the%20street. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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