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Where two walls conspire to trap dust, spiders, and your time-out memories.
means The point or angle where two lines, edges, walls, or streets meet, forming an enclosed or projecting space.
from From Old French 'cornere,' built on Latin 'cornu' meaning 'horn' or 'point' — the same root that gives us cornucopia and unicorn. A corner, then, is a place where a thing comes to a horn-like point, jutting out or folding in. The verb sense — to 'corner' someone — borrows the geometry of being driven into an inescapable angle.
- cutting corners
- Idiom born from literal shortcuts across street angles
- boxing
- Fighters return to assigned corners between every round
- market control
- Cornering a market means owning enough to dictate price
- geometry
- A square has four, a circle has none
- four corners
- Only US spot where four states meet at once
cornish tin mining — southwest england's dominant industry that extracted 7 million tons of tin from 3500+ mines over 2000 years
four corners monument — utah-arizona-colorado-new mexico border where only one point in the us touches four states simultaneously
corner gas — canadian tv series set in a fictional rural saskatchewan gas station and convenience store