pull an avenue address over
v. phr.— «“Pulling an avenue address over” is the topographical parlance for denying that your building’s real entrance is on, say, East Seventy-sixth Street.» —“On The Avenue” by Ben McGrath New Yorker Nov. 12, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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