"around the corner" meaning in All languages combined

See around the corner on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Audio: en-au-around the corner.ogg Forms: round the corner [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} around the corner (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) imminent; very soon Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Translations (imminent; very soon): aivan lähellä (Finnish), nurkan takana [colloquial] (Finnish), pour bientôt (French), küszöbön (Hungarian), küszöbönálló (Hungarian), zaraz (Polish), za pasem (Polish), logo ali (Portuguese), не за гора́ми /lit:not beyond the mountains/ (ne za gorámi) (Russian), на носу́ /lit:on the nose/ (na nosú) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-around_the_corner-en-adj-hHnqAlzw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 50 50 Synonyms: imminent, in the offing, proximate, around the corner [idiomatic], at hand, forthcoming, imminent, impendent, impending, in the offing [idiomatic], in the wind [idiomatic], instant [dated], on the boil, pending, proximate, to come, toward [dated] Disambiguation of 'imminent; very soon': 83 17
  2. (idiomatic) close, local, very near Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-around_the_corner-en-adj-aFcwWax1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 50 50 Synonyms: close by, near, proximate, around the corner [idiomatic], citerior [literary], close, close by, immediate, near, nearby, nigh [archaic, poetic], present, propinquitous [literary], proximate
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Time Disambiguation of Time: 0 0

Alternative forms

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