right up someone's strasse
- idiom
- UK
:
justo lo que le gusta a alguien
- If you like spicy food, this restaurant will be right up your strasse.
Examples
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That new science fiction series is right up my strasse.
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A relaxing holiday by the sea sounds right up her strasse.
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This book is right up my strasse!
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That movie is right up her strasse.
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A relaxing holiday by the sea sounds right up her strasse.
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If you like spicy food, this restaurant will be right up your strasse.
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That new science fiction series is right up my strasse.
Synonyms
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Suitable for a person, purpose, or event
Perfect for someone because of their interests or skills
Right for someone's tastes or skills
Something that suits someone's tastes or interests
Antonyms
How Suitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
right + up + someone's + strasse
The phrase is a calque of English 'right up someone's street' where 'right' (exactly/completely) + 'up' (emphatic particle) + possessive + 'strasse' (German for 'street') combine to mean something is perfectly suited to someone. Because the meaning is compositionally built from the constituents and mirrors a widely attested cross-linguistic pattern, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (including 'strasse' = 'street') would be able to derive the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Right up someone's strasse comes from using an English phrase with a German word: strasse is the German word for 'street', and the picture is something coming right up your street because it fits your tastes. That's why it means 'perfect for you'.