red-light district
noun
: a district in which houses of prostitution are frequent
Word History
Etymology
so called from the traditional practice of employing red lights to indicate houses of prostitution
First Known Use
1894, in the meaning defined above
- there's (something for you
- there's a sucker born every minute
- there's no accounting for taste
- there's no denying
- there's no dishonor in
- there's no fool like an old fool
- there's no getting away from
- there's no going back
- there's no holding him back
- there's no saying
- there's no smoke without fire
- there's no telling
- there's no time like the present
- there's one born every minute
- there's someone) for you
- there've
- there, there
- thereabout
- thereabouts
- thereafter
- thereagainst
- thereamong
- thereanent
- thereat
- thereater