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side of the tracks
Idioms and Phrases
see under right side of the tracks .Example Sentences
As the freight train known as La Bestia, meaning The Beast, approaches, they scramble to the side of the tracks and hold out the food for the migrants travelling on its roofs to grab as they thunder past.
She noted in interviews that she was raised on the wrong side of the tracks in her hometown of Wingham.
With the exception of a cluster of homes on the other side of the tracks, the surrounding acreage is primarily agricultural.
“They don’t look at women of color as vulnerable and victims. They look at us like we’re perpetrators, like we intentionally are from the wrong side of the tracks,” Martinez said.
Miske, 49, wasn’t a crime lord, but rather a “self-made man” who, despite growing up “on the wrong side of the tracks,” successfully built a family business called Kamaʻaina Termite and Pest Control, Kennedy said in his opening statement.
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