Fleet Street

English Alternative forms en Fletestreete obsolete Etymology From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs; see en fleet arm of the sea; stream for more. Pronunciation en /ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/ UK Proper noun Fleet Street en street bor/Westminster city/London x/England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism. en 1569 C. R. The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on thursday was sennight, the .xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God. M.DLX.ix. And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete. en metonym collective English journalism or journalists as a group. "They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" "Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet." en 1981 Richard Howard Stafford Crossman; Janet P. Morgan The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman 141 Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is. en 1986-01-23 w:Antony Jay; w:Jonathan Lynn w:The Smoke Screen w:Yes, Prime Minister 1 3 w:Humphrey Appleby Nigel Hawthorne Oh, Bernard, we can't have foreign policy made by yobbos like Fleet Street editors or backbench MPs! en Michael White Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/08/salmond-scotland-independence-first-minister The Guardian 8 September 2014 We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark. https://web.archive.org/web/20261017211358/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/08/salmond-scotland-independence-first-minister 17 October 2026 weekend Lauren Indvik 2023-09-23 God is in the details Life & Arts 3 It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen. Derived terms en Fleet Street dove en Named roads