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asphalt jungle

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asphalt jungle
n.
A large city or an urban or inner-city area, especially when characterized as congested and crime-ridden.


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Take up with this Impala and you'll be a leader among the wildlife in the asphalt jungle.
Forward leap by Weil, Daniel / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
And here is the British music critic Wilfrid Mellers about this "extraordinary" sonata: "Sophisticated as the idiom is, [it is] music of the asphalt jungle [that] could have been created only in America.
Griffes on Record; The greatest American composer you've never heard by Simon, John / The Weekly Standard
By doing so, we are blissfully transported, if only in our minds, to a place far more verdant and bucolic than the asphalt jungle that surrounds us.
IN THE GARDEN TREES BRING BEAUTY - AND TROUBLE TO NEARBY PAVEMENT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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