Difference between revisions of "Broadest way"

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* '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]''
 
* '''Through streets broad and narrow:''' a line from the popular Dublin street ballad ''[[Cockles and Mussels]]''
  
 
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Revision as of 14:41, 19 January 2014

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