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To go shopping, to go the main shopping centre: I'm going down the street, do you want me to buy you anything?
Contributor's comments: When I was a kid living in West Ryde (a suburb of Sydney) we always went "UP the street" when going to the shops.
Contributor's comments: When I was a kid, holidaying with my grandparents in Ballarat, we would go 'down the street', which would mean the main part of town, as opposed to 'up to the shop' referring to the local milkbar, or up to the 'Village', meaning Wendouree Village, a shopping centre in a Ballarat suburb.
Contributor's comments: I heard this one in Broken Hill where there is one main street with the shops. When anyone there merely says their "Going down the street" they mean off they go to the shops.
Contributor's comments: "down the street" is regularly used at my school in Bendigo to mean going into the CBD, which is nearby, whereas where I used to live in Hobart this expression is unheard of - it's always "going to town"; maybe because Hobart is a bigger city?
Contributor's comments: We used to say, "I'm going up the street" meaning the main part of town in country Kalgoorlie. I notice that most country people in WA use this term when referring to going to town.
Contributor's comments: In Toowoomba (QLD) we say: I'm going Down Town - it is actually advertised like that on tele too 'Down Town Toowoomba'. Going up/down the street was normally to visit mates.
Contributor's comments: Went "Down the street" growing up in central Vic; got laughed at by people my age who had grown up in Melbourne when I studied there at 18.