Brewer's: Alley

(The) The Stock Exchange Alley.

“John Rive, after many active years in the Alley, retired to the Continent, and died at the age of 118.” —Old and New London, p. 476.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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