up the street

idiom

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

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Think ghost sightings, vintage photos from another era, and a bar that’s stood (literally, until the restaurant moved up the street, the bar was standing-only—no stools) the test of time. Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025 That whole street and around the corner had little cottages and a cottage court up the street because the electric car would drive through La Jolla around there [in the early 1900s]. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025 Boston was right up the street. Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025 The entrepreneur founded clothing store Berkeley Supply in 2012, situated two blocks up the street from My Boy Tony. Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for up the street

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“Up the street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up%20the%20street. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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