1. Home
2. Idioms
3. be up alley

be up alley

---

---

be (right) up somebody's alley

  (informal) also be (right) down somebody's alley (American & Australian informal)

if something is right up someone's alley, it is exactly the type of thing that they know about or like to do The job should be right up Steve's alley - working with computers, software and stuff.

See also: alley, up