The Ministry of Higher and secondary education of the Republic of Uzbekistan State World Languages University

TOWN

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  to go to town – to spend one’s money recklessly. ‘The Howards have really gone to town on a house for their daughter. They have bought her an absolute beauty.’ ‘Go to town’ is an American colloquialism referring to the people who come into town from the countryside to spend their money. It was originally used about cowboys and ranch hands.⁹
  
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  a man about town – a sociable man who attends many fashionable parties and has a wide circle of wealthy friends. ‘My brother has become quite a man about town; when he was young, he hated going to parties’.
  
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  a lady of the town – a woman of loose morals.
  
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  the talk of the town – someone whose behaviour and wild way of life give rise to gossip and scandal-mongering. ‘You had better behave yourself, Pauline. You are becoming the talk of the town.’ / it’s the talk of the town – it’s the most talked-about or fashionable place or thing.
  
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  a ghost town – a town that is no longer inhabited.
  

STREET

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  to take to the streets – to demonstrate against authority, to make a show of force. ‘The students took to the streets in support of the health workers’ claim for higher wages.’
  
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  to go on the streets – to work as a prostitute.
  
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  streets ahead of – far superior to, very much in advance of. ‘You are streets ahead of us in technology.’
  
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  not in the same street – far inferior to, in no way comparable. ‘All right, I’ll have a game with you, but you know very well I’m not in the same street as you.’
  
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  the man in the street – the ordinary, typical man and woman. ‘We are doing market research work, and we want the reaction of the man in the street to our suggestions.’
  
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  to go back to Civvy Street – to return to civilian life after serving in the armed forces. “What are you going to do when you go back to Civvy Street?’
  
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  in Queer Street – in financial trouble, in debt. ‘If we go on spending money like this, we shall soon be in queer street.’ ‘Queer Street’ may be a corruption of Carey Street where the Courts in Bankruptcy are situated.
  
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  grub street – an inferior writer, inferior writing. ‘…any mean production is called grubstreet’ (Dr Johnson, Dictionary). Grub Street near Moorffields in the East End of London (now Milton Street) was inhabited in the seventeenth century by a group of inferior writers and literary hacks.
  
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