million-dollar block
n.— «He said in the United States they’ve coined a phrase “million-dollar blocks,” clusters of apartments or houses where a million dollars each year is spent sending some people who live there to prison.» —“Lock ’em up? Must be election year” by Brian Rudman New Zealand Herald June 25, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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