queer street

queer street
noun
Usage: usually capitalized Q&S
: an embarrassing situation or condition; especially : a condition marked by financial difficulties

those commitments will put us in Queer Street next year — John Galsworthy

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a condition of financial instability or embarrassment: Such extravagance will surely put them in Queer Street.
[1830-40]

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Queer Street noun
1. Debt or other difficulties
2. The imaginary place where debtors, etc live
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Main Entry: ↑queer

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Queer Street,
an imaginary street in which people in financial or other difficulties, or shady characters generally, are supposed to live: »

Look out, fellow Christians, particularly you that lodge in Queer Street! (Dickens). The levy should not be applied so rigidly as to force companies into Queer Street if their costs rose faster than their incomes (London Times).


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