Despite the staggering £99,000 in "interest" this was no back-street loan shark - the lender was high street bank Barclays, which this week announced that profits for the first half of this year had soared to £4.1bn.
"People said I was mad to open a theatre here, they said there's no tube, it's a back street, no money.
Take, for example, Bae's decision to move her office last summer from the bustling, ever-crowded Garosugil in Gangnam to a sleepy back street in Jong-no, Gangbuk.
Tucked away on a back street with no flag, it is just a large walled compound protected by bored Afghan guards.
Back then, passing a graveyard you might actually whistle: No walk in the park, a black back street back in the day.
It was on a back street, hidden away, but there was no mistaking it.
"Around in the back street".
Three: Elm Street, Main Street and Back Street.
6. Ura-Harajuko means "back street," or "backside of Harajuko".
A peasant in some Naples back street (17th century).
I am on a back street when I see a crowd of youths.
