From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishright up/down somebody’s alleyright up/down somebody’s alleyvery suitable for someone The job sounds right up your alley. → alleyExamples from the Corpusright up/down somebody’s alley• She said, I will tell you this Bobby Kennedy is right up my alley.• The job sounds right up your alley. Show Ideally suited to one's interests. Anna loves watching movies, so I'm sure she'll go to the film festival with you—that's right up her alley. This course seemed right up my alley when I signed up for it, but it ended up being dreadfully boring. See also: alley,
right, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved. right up your alleymainly AMERICANIf something is right up your alley, it is the kind of thing you like or know about. This should be right up my alley but, despite the film's special effects, I found it rather boring. I thought this little problem would be right up your alley. Note: You can also say that something is right down your alley. I'll need whatever information you can turn up within the week. This case seems right down your alley. Note: The usual British expression is right up your street. See also: alley, right, up Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
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Đăng ký gói Premium, và bạn sẽ có thể phát lại câu trả lời âm thanh/video của người dùng khác.  Mệt mỏi vì tìm kiếm? HiNative có thể giúp bạn tìm ra câu trả lời mà bạn đang tìm kiếm. Right up my alleyIf something is right up your alley, it suits you perfectly. right up (one's) alleyIdeally ill-fitted to one's interests. Anna loves watching movies, so I'm abiding she'll go to the blur anniversary with you—that's appropriate up her alley. This advance seemed appropriate up my alleyway back I active up for it, but it concluded up actuality clumsily boring.Learn more: alley, right, upright up one's alleyAlso, right down one's alley. In one's specialty, to one's taste, as in Writing columnist releases is appropriate up her alley, or He admired opera, so this affairs of arias was appropriate down his alley. These idioms use alley in the faculty of "one's own province," a acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1600s. [First bisected of 1900s] Additionally see cup of tea. Learn more: alley, right, upright up your alleymainly AMERICANIf article is right up your alley, it is the affectionate of affair you like or apperceive about. This should be appropriate up my alleyway but, admitting the film's appropriate effects, I begin it rather boring. I anticipation this little botheration would be appropriate up your alley. Note: You can additionally say that article is right down your alley. I'll charge whatever advice you can about-face up aural the week. This case seems appropriate down your alley. Note: The accepted British announcement is right up your street. Learn more: alley, right, up(right) up one’s alleymod. absolutely one’s affectionate of thing; absolutely what one is best able to do. It’s not absolutely up my alley, but I’ll try it. Learn more: alley, right, upright up one's alley, to beTo be in one’s accurate specialty or to one’s absolute taste. The chat alley has continued been acclimated for one’s appropriate province; Francis Bacon so acclimated it in his article Of Cunning (1612): “Such men . . . are acceptable but in their own Alley.” Up one’s alley, however, is a avant-garde about-face of phrase. Margaret Carpenter acclimated it in her atypical Experiment Perilous (1943): “It isn’t up my alleyway at all.” Learn added not my cup of tea.Learn more: right, up |
