Queer Street

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  1. A stunned condition. idiomatic
    — In any event, the German slugger nailed down 21 of his 39 victories by putting his opponent on Queer Street via the knockout route.
  2. A difficult circumstance, especially bankruptcy; hard times. UK,dated,idiomatic
    — But soon they led a Queer-street life, / 'Twas what she'd not expected / Like cat and dog, with snarl and strife, / And love and lamps neglected. / About his work he would not wag
  3. Suspicious circumstances. UK,dated,idiomatic
    — I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot. It was a bit of the printed description of your house at Chesney Wold. Not much in that, you'll say, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet. No. But when my foreign friend here is so thoroughly off her guard as to think it a safe time to tear up the rest of that leaf, and when Mrs. Bucket puts the pieces together and finds the wadding wanting, it begins to look like Queer Street.

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