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Meanings of kitty-corner in английском

Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line.

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Usage of kitty-corner in английском
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Mike Nelson: The Minnesota Vikings had their training camp kitty-corner from us.
Wired
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He sat kitty-corner in a chair of carved wood and inlaid ivory.
Layover in dubai
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Nancy had dropped my arm and was gliding kitty-corner fashion, across the floor.
The Man on the Box
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Then tipping the board kitty-corner, he was able to shimmy it through the opening.
The bricklayer
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Most unsettling of all was what we learned about the small house kitty-corner from ours.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
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She cut kitty-corner across the mall's imitation marble floor.
Midnight hero
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One day he said the wind had lifted him and carried him kitty-corner across the street.
The new yorker
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Sitting kitty-corner to me at a conference table, he looked smaller and thinner than his photographs.
100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
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There, Pel and Keo occupied two of the four seats, sitting kitty-corner across from each other.
Ascension
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I indicated the chair kitty-corner to me.
Pasta Imperfect
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Rusty's grave, dug with meticulous care by Tellis Blackmore and his backhoe, lay just kitty-corner to his grandfather's.
The lonely polygamist: a novel
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Another door, kitty-corner to the entry, was ajar, the gleaming edge of a toilet promising a private bath.
Shadow fall
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A longtime widow, she lived kitty-corner down the gravel lane with her daughter, her son-in-law, and her two grandchildren.
The favorites: a novel
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He was eating a pretzel and listening to a bulky transistor radio that was sitting kitty-corner on his handcart.
Night Shift
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Then he leaped, an astonishing burst of motion that flung him from Margrit's balcony to the next one up, kitty-corner.
Heart of stone
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Hunter and quarry raced up the sidewalk until the woman reached an intersection and turned to dash kitty-corner through it.
Salvador strike