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Subject: Re: What does the expression "Standing on the corner" mean?
Date: 31 Aug 2004 14:28:03 -0700
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"John of Aix" <j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr> wrote in message news:<ch0d9j$54f$2@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>...
> Don Pelayo @jazzfree.com wrote:
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> > 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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