in town
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1.0
- idiom
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en la ciudad
- The holiday weekend was almost over, and the mechanic was due back in town the next morning.
- only clinic in town
- a game in town
There are two ways, my friends, to build the biggest building in town step number one.
- There are two ways, my friends, to build the biggest building in town step number one.
- This guy, Eric King, he was like had the toughest arm in town, dude.
- So I tried, the big developer in town said more or less nobody developed here but me.
- Lots of different conflicts in town, especially with lots of board squaddies, usually with the jocks.
- So these cats in town who've done theme restaurants, Derek Berry's genius comes out of Chicago.
- You have one louder horn for the country for longer distances and one quieter horn for when you're in town.
- As far as your dad, I mean, he grew up in town and but they had a little acreage, they had some cows and his sister was a show horse.
- But so, yeah, I was, I was born in a small log in town, Fall River Mills.
- Most tickets were sold on the day or the day before via the balls in town.
Examples
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And Nick knew everybody in town, so thank God there were a lot of visitors.
Fiction book (1995) -
Well, I haven't been in town for a while.
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Yeah, we're going to serve the best wine in town ever.
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I wanted to let him know that I would be in town.
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There is a new iPad in town and it looks fantastic.
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What I figure is this: the money's hidden somewhere in town, probably close to us right now.
Fiction book (1995) -
So I went into town with these Flyers and spent about two days in town handing them all out, hundreds of girls.
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There's a dance audition in town tomorrow.
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Enter Harlow, the New Girl in town who just wants a job in her sister's cafe.
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There are many great restaurants in town that you should try.
Antonyms
How Urban
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'present in a particular town or city' is directly and compositionally derived from 'in' (showing location inside boundaries) and 'town' (a settlement). This simple locative prepositional phrase follows common cross-linguistic patterns and will be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words, though finer pragmatic notes about being a short-term visitor rely on context.
Etymology
In town comes from when towns were small and people said they were in the town walls among shops and houses, not out in the fields. So, it means 'in the area of a town or city'.