Meanings
- informalMatching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well.
This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?
1 more example
‘This little bit of business will be right up our alley.’
1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 136Synonyms: down someone's alley, right up someone's alley, up someone's street
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseMatching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well.
Translations
Finnish jonkun alaa
- jonkun alaamatching a person's interests or abilities well
French dans les cordes de quelqu'un
- dans les cordes de quelqu'unmatching a person's interests or abilities well
Hungarian neki való
- neki valómatching a person's interests or abilities well
Italian nelle proprie corde
- nelle proprie cordematching a person's interests or abilities well
Polish w stylu, dla
- w stylumatching a person's interests or abilities well
- dlamatching a person's interests or abilities well
Spanish ser plato del gusto de, serle grato (a)
- ser plato del gusto dematching a person's interests or abilities well
- serle grato (a)matching a person's interests or abilities well
Cite this entry
up someone's alley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20someone's%20alley
“up someone's alley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20someone's%20alley. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “up someone's alley,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20someone's%20alley.
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