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What does the expression "Standing on the corner" mean?
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D***@jazzfree.com
2004-08-30 19:07:19 UTC
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I have heard it many times on songs but I have not found
this expression in dictionaries.
John of Aix
2004-08-30 22:34:31 UTC
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Post by D***@jazzfree.com
I have heard it many times on songs but I have not found
this expression in dictionaries.
Hanging about, (fig.) doing nothing, actually waiting on a corner (for a
date for example). The corner is the corner of a street of course.
eromlignod
2004-08-31 21:28:03 UTC
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Post by John of Aix
Post by D***@jazzfree.com
I have heard it many times on songs but I have not found
this expression in dictionaries.
Hanging about, (fig.) doing nothing, actually waiting on a corner (for a
date for example). The corner is the corner of a street of course.
"I'll be standing on the corner drinking gin,
When they haul your dead ass in.
I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you."

Louis Armstrong
D***@jazzfree.com
2004-09-01 20:49:10 UTC
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Thanks John and also to eromlignod for the example.
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Post by John of Aix
Post by D***@jazzfree.com
I have heard it many times on songs but I have not found
this expression in dictionaries.
Hanging about, (fig.) doing nothing, actually waiting on a corner (for a
date for example). The corner is the corner of a street of course.
"I'll be standing on the corner drinking gin,
When they haul your dead ass in.
I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you."
Louis Armstrong
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