around the corner
On the other side of a street corner, as in The doctor's office is around the corner from our house. [First half of 1800s]
Nearby, a short distance away, as in The nearest grocery store is just around the corner. [Early 1800s]
Very soon, imminent, as in You never know what stroke of luck lies just around the corner. [First half of 1900s]
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |