Timeline for Origin of New Jersey idiom "down the shore"
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| Apr 25, 2015 at 22:08 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm a Brit, and I'd assume 'down the shore' was a variant of 'along the shore', probably in a [mainly] southerly direction. 'Down the pub' affords only the possibilities of a conversationally deleted 'to' or 'at'. | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 4:49 | comment | added | Frank | @MattGutting In the static sense of he has a house down the shore versus he has a house up the hill, in BrE I think it would be referring more to a vague notion of altitude in the same way that rivers run down to the sea and everything inland is up from there (in most cases). I don't know what New Jersey folks would mean in that case. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 23:02 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | One difficulty with this, and I may edit the question to reflect the problem. The term "down the shore" can be used to indicate "where at" as well as "where to": He went down the shore for vacation, but also He has a house down the shore where he stays in summer. | |
| Jul 13, 2014 at 7:49 | history | answered | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |