up someone's alley

English

Prepositional phrase

up someone's alley

1. (informal) Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well.

   Synonyms: down someone's alley, right up someone's alley, up someone's street

   This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?

   • 1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 136:

     ‘This little bit of business will be right up our alley.’

Translations

matching a person's interests or abilities well

Finnish: jonkun alaa French: dans les cordes de quelqu'un Galician: da súa corda, do seu estilo Hungarian: neki való Italian: nelle proprie corde Polish: w stylu, dla (pl) Spanish: ser plato del gusto de, serle grato (a)

See also

• in one's element
• out of one's depth