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From: Don Pelayo @jazzfree.com
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Subject: Re: What does the expression "Standing on the corner" mean?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:49:10 +0200
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Thanks John and also to eromlignod for the example.
On 31 Aug 2004 14:28:03 -0700, eromlignod@aol.com (eromlignod) wrote:
>"John of Aix" <j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr> wrote in message news:<ch0d9j$54f$2@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>...
>> Don Pelayo @jazzfree.com wrote:
>>
>> > 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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