up someone's alley in English

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      "expansion": "up someone's alley",
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          "text": "This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?"
        }
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        "Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well."
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        [
          "Matching",
          "match"
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        [
          "corresponding",
          "correspond"
        ],
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          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "abilities",
          "ability"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "in one's element"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "down someone's alley"
        },
        {
          "word": "right up someone's alley"
        },
        {
          "word": "up someone's street"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
          "word": "dans les cordes de quelqu’un"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
          "word": "da súa corda"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
          "word": "do seu estilo"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
          "word": "neki való"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up someone's alley"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "up someone's alley",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up someone's alley",
      "name": "en-prep phrase"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "in one's element"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Matching",
          "match"
        ],
        [
          "corresponding",
          "correspond"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest"
        ],
        [
          "abilities",
          "ability"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "down someone's alley"
        },
        {
          "word": "right up someone's alley"
        },
        {
          "word": "up someone's street"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
      "word": "dans les cordes de quelqu’un"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
      "word": "da súa corda"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
      "word": "do seu estilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "matching a person's interests or abilities well",
      "word": "neki való"
    }
  ],
  "word": "up someone's alley"
}

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"up someone's alley" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase