go on the streets—
1. go out into the streets:
- After finishing home duties, people go on the streets to walk up and down to meet their friends, to socialize.
2. demonstrate for or against smth.:
- In Japan, whose labor force is among the highest paid in the world, thousands of people go on the streets every year as well.
3. work as a prostitute:
- They went into service, and when they found that they were expected to dust chairs and wash up breakfast things they went on the streets.
take to the streets—
1. = go on the streets 1:
- She takes to the streets daily in response to calls from tenants to investigate nuisance neighbors.
2. = go on the streets 2:
- The students took to the streets in support of the health workers’ claim for higher wages.