catty-corner

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And Abbey Bettinger - the chattiest of the art girls - is catty-corner, smashing clay and chatting away about the look of the new Pepsi cans.

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  • In the ol 'Square Foot gardening 101 (4'x8 ") bed, the garlic is popping up, and the 4'x4' square of spinach and snap peas are sprouting under the floating row cover, which I have tented using crossing cheap plastic water pipe, catty-corner like a dome-style tent about 18 "high. —  Monkeyfister
  • I work catty-corner from the monolithic East End complex, and boy is that frustrating. —  Sacramento Metblogs
  • I had lunch with Andy Spade, now 47 and married to handbag designer Kate Spade, recently at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan, catty-corner to Mr. Spade's new venture on Great Jones Street. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • Even though another boarded-up building, not unlike the three that were finally razed, stands catty-corner to his office, Brian Friedman believes that every step you take gets you closer. —  Brewed Fresh Daily AKA The BFD Blog
  • 'This place is catty-corner to a McDonald's, and there's a line out the door,' he says. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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