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Idiom be right up alleybe (right) up (someone's) alley informal, American & Australian, informal if something is right up someone's alley, it is exactly the type of thing that they know about or like to do.The job should be right up Steve's alley - working with computers, software and stuff.
up one's alleysee under right up one's alley. right up one's alley, to beTo be in one’s particular specialty or to one’s precise taste. The word alley has long been used for one’s special province; Francis Bacon so used it in his essay Of Cunning (1612): “Such men . . . are good but in their own Alley.” Up one’s alley, however, is a twentieth-century turn of phrase. Margaret Carpenter used it in her novel Experiment Perilous (1943): “It isn’t up my alley at all.” See also not my cup of tea. |