catty-corner

• “Marines typically test plates using what's called a torque test, in which you grab catty-corner edges of the plate and twist as hard as you can.”

  USA Today: Marine Corps using X-rays to inspect armor

• “It seemed to me as I sat there, eating, drinking wine and talking about Art with them that there are worse things than having a heart with some starch in it; one that's capable of anger and not just sympathy, and a foot that can draw a line that crosses another, catty-corner.”

  Fictionaut: The Prince of Beers

• “His folks bought them a house catty-corner from my mom's.”

  Fictionaut: The Prince of Beers

• “In the living room, an Eames lounge sits catty-corner to a bentwood rocker; on the dining table, jelly-jar tumblers are set next to Nicole's grandmother's sterling silverware.”

  Fictionaut: The Search

• “There was a steady line of traffic, here, as the Manhattan Bridge carried lines of cars into Brooklyn, but just to the left of the bridge, catty-corner to the site of the old tavern, a different kind of line had begun to form, beneath a large sign with a bright red arrow pointing down to a ticket booth.”

  Simon & Schuster: The King's Best Highway

• “Our rooms were catty-corner to each other at the end of the hall.”

  What’s the Weirdest Experience of Your Life?

• “His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB

• “It's small up here, and he has his own hut catty-corner to hers.”

  LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #2: Viewing Life from the Roof

• “The mailman's car was not in front of Howard's house, but the convoy of two police cars and two pickups parked catty-corner in the center of the street just in case, effectively blocking off any attempt to escape.”

  Fictionaut: Baby Games

• “Mr. FRED HERSCH (Pianist): It's above Coltrane, and next to Bill Evans and catty-corner from Mingus, and not that I, in my wildest dreams, think that I'm at that level as an artist.”

  NPR: Fred Hersch: Back On Stage By No Small Miracle

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