mean street

He stood below in the mean street, looking up at her.

Down these mean streets a man must walk, he thought.

The story of two brothers growing up on Chicago's mean streets.

He was on the mean streets, and thinking about living out here permanently.

They turned a corner into another mean street along one side of which there was a high blank wall.

By most "mean streets" standards, he had an easy time of it.

It is citizens who turn mean streets into good neighborhoods.

Now she was looking down on the mean street.

The audience is in Sky's bar, which does not protect us from the mean streets.

He turned at last into the mean street where he lived.

There are people on those mean streets dumb enough to drop in.

Troy is aware that a life on the mean streets can only lead to a dead end.

Down these mean streets a man must go, and they are getting meaner all the time.

A band of former cops sets out to bring law and order to the mean streets.

They get three square meals, medical care, recreation and a break from the mean streets.

I run a little dress shop on Johannesgatan-gata means street, you know.

A dog faces the mean streets with helplessness and fear.

They are thick in the mean streets behind the gas-works.

The problem comes when he moves from that lofty place to the mean streets of politics.

The typical family vehicle of the late 1990's has turned into something that in the 1970's would have qualified as a mean street machine.

He looked up and down the mean street, and then surveyed the house before which they stood.

This wasn't, after all, the mean streets of south San Francisco.

Washington's generally mild weather means street and cafe life well into November.

Instead of booting Smith out onto the mean streets, they hired him.

He did not cut into by-ways or twist his way through mean streets.