Etymology
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one-way + street
one-way street (plural one-way streets)
- A road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction.
- (figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone.
- (figurative) Something that lacks reciprocity.
2006 April 27, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[1] (Usenet):Judaism is not about reading your personal experiences into Jewish ritual, waving a wand, and declaring the result "Judaism". Vietnam has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on Torah values. Torah values can, obviously, have a bearing on Vietnam, or on anything else, but it's a one-way street.
2009, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health, page 186:Romantic love is not selfless but selfish. Although real love is not altruistic, nor is it narcissistic – a 'me-only', one-way street relationship.
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Translations
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road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: еднопосо́чна у́лица f (ednoposóčna úlica)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 單程路/单程路 (daan1 cing4 lou6)
- Mandarin: 單向街/单向街 (dānxiàngjiē), 單向道/单向道 (dānxiàngdào), 單行道/单行道 (zh) (dānxíngdào), 單行街/单行街 (dānxíngjiē)
- Czech: jednosměrka f
- Danish: ensrettet vej c, ensrettet gade c (in a town)
- Dutch: eenrichtingsstraat (nl) f
- Finnish: yksisuuntainen katu
- French: rue à sens unique f
- German: Einbahnstraße (de) f
- Greek: μονόδρομος (el) m (monódromos)
- Hausa: wanwê f
- Hungarian: egyirányú utca (hu)
- Icelandic: einstefnugata (is) f
- Irish: sráid aontreo f
- Japanese: 一方通行 (ja) (いっぽうつうこう, ippōtsūkō)
- Korean: 일방통행(一方通行) (ko) (ilbangtonghaeng), 일방통행로(一方通行路) (ilbangtonghaengno)
- Macedonian: еднонасочна улица f (ednonasočna ulica)
- Malay: jalan sehala (ms)
- Polish: jednokierunkowa (ulica) f
- Portuguese: rua de mão única f (Brazil)
- Romanian: sens unic (ro) n
- Russian: у́лица с односторо́нним движе́нием f (úlica s odnostorónnim dvižénijem)
- Spanish: calle de un solo sentido f, calle de mano única f (Argentina), flecha (es) f (Venezuela, colloquial)
- Swedish: enkelriktad gata c, enkelriktad väg c
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