Downing Street

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专有名词
  1. A street leading off Whitehall in Westminster, London containing the residences of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  2. The British government. broadly,metonymically
    — […] both Whitehall and Downing Street are in a blue funk lest they should do the wrong thing, either let the man slip away with the papers or arrest him without them.
  3. Either 10 Downing Street or 11 Downing Street. broadly
    — For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.

词源

Named for its founder, Sir George Downing.
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