Broadest way

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  • Broadway: a street in New York → supposedly built by Irish labourers like Tim Finnegan
  • Bygmester Finnegan ... lived in the broadest way: (song) Finnegan's Wake: "Tim Finnegan lived in Walker Street"
  • broad: liberal minded; immoral
  • Through streets broad and narrow: a line from the popular Dublin street ballad Cockles and Mussels
  • broad: slang for a woman (especially a fast woman)