across the street
idiom
: on or to the other side of the street directly across from something
They live across the street (from us).
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The 64-story hotel is just off the famed Las Vegas Strip and across the street from the Fashion Show Las Vegas shopping mall.
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2025
The explosion that occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday at a three-story home with a bottom-level carport left debris scattered in front of the house and windows across the street shattered.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Also hospitalized after the yellow taxi drove onto the sidewalk across the street from Macy's flagship store in Herald Square were a 9-year-old boy with a laceration to his right thigh, a 49-year-old woman with a leg injury and a 41-year-old woman.
—arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
At that time, the tenants included Marcel Duchamp, who as the story goes had moved in to be closer to the chess club across the street.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
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Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2025
The explosion that occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday at a three-story home with a bottom-level carport left debris scattered in front of the house and windows across the street shattered.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Also hospitalized after the yellow taxi drove onto the sidewalk across the street from Macy's flagship store in Herald Square were a 9-year-old boy with a laceration to his right thigh, a 49-year-old woman with a leg injury and a 41-year-old woman.
—arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024
At that time, the tenants included Marcel Duchamp, who as the story goes had moved in to be closer to the chess club across the street.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Across the street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/across%20the%20street. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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