to pound the streets

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• pound the streets/pavement — to walk or run on the street especially in search of something She s out there every day pounding the pavement, looking for work. Hard core joggers will pound the streets in all kinds of weather. • • • Main Entry: ↑pound …   Useful english dictionary

• pound the streets — see ↑pound, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑street …   Useful english dictionary

• pound the pavement — {v. phr.}, {informal} To walk up and down the streets; tramp about. * /John pounded the pavement looking for a job./ * /Mary and Bill pounded the pavement to find an apartment./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pound the pavement — {v. phr.}, {informal} To walk up and down the streets; tramp about. * /John pounded the pavement looking for a job./ * /Mary and Bill pounded the pavement to find an apartment./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pound the pavement — I see pound II II walk the streets in an effort to accomplish something I will pound the pavement from city to city in order to explain the dangers ■ search diligently for something, typically for a job although the country s current jobless rate …   Useful english dictionary

• pound the pavement —    Someone who pounds the pavement walks the streets or goes from company to company, usually in search of employment.    (You can also pound the pavement in an effort to raise funds or gain support for a cause.)     Charlie is out there pounding …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• pound\ the\ pavement — v. phr. informal To walk up and down the streets; tramp about. John pounded the pavement looking for a job. Mary and Bill pounded the pavement to find an apartment …   Словарь американских идиом

• pound the pavement — idi+inf Informal. to walk the streets unremittingly, as to find work …   From formal English to slang

• pound — pound1 [pound] n. pl. pounds; sometimes, after a number, pound [ME < OE pund, akin to Ger pfund: WGmc loanword < L pondo, a pound, orig. abl. of pondus, weight (in libra pondo, a pound in weight), akin to pendere: see PENDANT] 1. a) the… …   English World dictionary

• Pound Cake speech — The Pound Cake Speech was given by Bill Cosby in May 2004, at an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In it, Cosby was highly critical of some members and subsets of the black… …   Wikipedia

• The Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers — ceremony is a series of three events dating back many years. The events occur on the date that new apprentices are introduced to the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters of Purbeck. The initiates have to negotiate West Street in Corfe Castle from …   Wikipedia