Downing Street
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Downing Street
Where it comes from
Named for its founder, Sir George Downing.
proper noun
- A street leading off Whitehall in Westminster, London containing the residences of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- The British government. […] both Whitehall and Downing Street are in a blue funk lest they should do the wrong thing, either let the man slip away with the papers or arrest him without them.
- Either 10 Downing Street or 11 Downing Street. For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
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