down-home hip
English translation: seemingly homely but residential and fashionable
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chic (sophisticated) but situated in a neighborhood that has a working class history Explanation: I don't mean to contradict David's answer, but rather to clarify the question. |
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peer agreement (net): +3seemingly homely but residential and fashionable Explanation: Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, Hell's Kitchen has changed over the last three decades of the 20th century and into the new millennium because it is near Midtown. The 1969 edition of the Plan for New York City book by the City Planning Commission said that development pressures related to its Midtown location were driving people of modest means from the area. Today, many actors live in the neighborhood because it is near the Broadway theaters and Actors Studio training school. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2012-06-23 13:01:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- down-home (dounhm) adj. Of, relating to, or reminiscent of a simple, wholesome, unpretentious lifestyle, especially that associated with the rural southern United States. and "hip" means fashionable and the place to be for thise who are "in" (i.e. trendy) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2012-06-23 13:03:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- here's a definition of "hip" from the Urban Dictionary: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipCooler than cool, the pinnacle of what is "it". Beyond all trends and conventional coolness. Not to be mistaken for "deck". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2012-06-23 13:05:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- so basically the phrase means "an area that is homely and seemingly unpretentious but is actually very trendy and a place the "in crowd" choose to live or meet -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 mins (2012-06-23 13:07:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.[1] The neighborhood provides transportation, hospital and warehouse infrastructure support to the Midtown Manhattan business district. Its gritty reputation kept real estate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan until the early 1990s. Since then, rents have increased enormously, and are currently above the Manhattan average.[2] The rough-and-tumble days on the West Side figure prominently in Damon Runyon's stories and the childhood home of Marvel Comics' Daredevil. Various Manhattan ethnic conflicts formed the basis of the musical and film West Side Story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell's_Kitchen,_Manhattan |
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