up/down your alley

alley | American Dictionary

alley
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæl·i/(alsoalleyway, us/ˈæl·iˌweɪ/)
a narrow road or path between buildings, esp. between the backs of buildings:
I ran down the alley and up the back stairs.

Examples of alley

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Adaptability of calliandra tree fallows planted in alleys.
To what extent are they ' blind alleys ' that disappear without a trace ?
Plots were 14 mr30.5 m and separated by 2 m alleys within each replicate.
Plots were separated by 1 m wide alleys planted with barley.
Rats placed in an elevated maze with brightly lit alleys avoided those alleys and moved to a darker place.
Since land was limiting, the plots were placed adjacent to each other without guard rows or alleys.
They knew it as a part of a full urban network of narrow alleys channelling traffic towards houses that faced an internal courtyard.
The site must be rectangular with no gaps apart from alleys between rows or between columns.
We can use this theorem to transfer results on hedged bisimilarity to alleys.
Urbanized areas become enormous shopping malls, displaying wares of various types of dwellings along roads, streets and alleys (rather than aisles) for 'shoppers' to assess as would-be occupants.
Plan of the spatial distribution of blind alleys in a block.
Two hives were placed at the north end of the plots and two hives were placed in the centre alleys of the plots, all entrances facing to the south.
The temptation to assume a literal picture observed through a "mind's eye" may be very strong, but it leads us at every turn into blind alleys.
What they did was to give the go-ahead to petrol stations, to gambling establishments, and to bowling alleys.
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