on the block

Her friend had been on the block for over a week.

He never looked at me, but kept an eye on the block.

When I was growing up, kids came out on the block.

But for those trying to fight the drug problems on the block, social and economic history is playing against them.

"Now I wait and see instead of being the first on the block to buy."

He said a new building on the block would have been 40 or 50 stories.

After 22 years on the block, they were among the first families to leave.

All of them said they had lived on the block for several years.

IN 1946, our house was the first on the block to get a television set.

And I know you put your own head on the block.