英语词汇up one-s alley的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	up one-s alley
词源	up one’s alley. Very suitable to someone’s likes or abilities, as in, “Let me play, this game is right up my alley.” Eugene O’Neill must have known the expression was common about 1924, when he put it in quotes in a letter. It is infrequently heard as “down one’s alley.”
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