"around the corner" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-au-around the corner.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} around the corner (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) imminent; very soon Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: imminent, in the offing, proximate, impending 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 Disambiguation of Time: 52 48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'imminent; very soon': 81 19
  2. (idiomatic) close, local, very near Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: close by, near, proximate, near
    Sense id: en-around_the_corner-en-adj-aFcwWax1 Disambiguation of Time: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: round the corner

Alternative forms

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