on the street | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Without a home; without the means to afford good shelter.We haven't been able to pay rent for five months. Next month we'll beon the street.2018,The Observer,The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity, 28 October :Delays with universal credit have compounded the problem, pushing people into rent arrears and putting them at risk of losing their homes. And the retrenchment of services such as mental health and drug rehabilitation means that vulnerable people are more likely to find themselveson the street.; (idiomatic)In actual practice, as opposed to in a laboratory, classroom, etc.1983,Streets as Public Property: Opportunities for Public/private Interactin in Planning and Design, page108:But to work "on the street" is clearly quite different from "working the street."1995, Barbara F. Freed,Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context, page317:Indeed, the contribution of study abroad to significant language gains is commonly believed to derive from the numerous opportunities program participants have to engage in first-hand language practiceon "the street", in restaurants, in shops, in the homes of native speaker friends and acquaintances as well as a variety of other out-of-class environments in which students find themselves while living in-country.2020, Adam Kucharski,The Rules of Contagion, page123:'We took five years of strategy development before we put a single thingon the street,' Slutkin said.

Examples:

EN: Mikisaburo comes strolling down the road. He hears people talking out on the street.
ES: Mikisaburo viene dando un paseo, y escucha el ruido de la gente hablando en el camino.
EN: "If I haven't paid 60 francs tonight, they'll throw us out on the street."
ES: Si no he pagado sesenta francos esta noche, nos echarán a la calle.
EN: "So you'll stand by the assertion that you bought this watch on the street, from an unknown!"
ES: "¡Entonces insiste en que compró este reloj en la calle, a un desconocido!"
EN: Yes .. enjoy life ... soon you will be on the street.
ES: Sí... disfruta de la vida... pronto te tocará la calle.
EN: Go ... you will find her on the street.
ES: Anda... la encontrarás en la calle.
EN: You will not hesitate throwing me out on the street.
ES: -- ¿A mí, a un viejo, lo echarás a la calle?
EN: stranger than any man on the street
ES: ¡Más extraño que cualquiera de la calle!
EN: There ain't a dame on the street that ain't jealous 'cause you got me looking after you.
ES: No hay una mujer en la calle que no esté celosa porque me tienes cuidando de ti.
EN: How could you tell, just seeing her on the street?
ES: ¿Cómo puede decirlo sólo por haberla visto por la calle?
EN: And he walked on the street... And danced!
ES: Caminando y bailando!
EN: Is it true your son used to go with you when you preached on the street?
ES: ¿Es cierto que tu hijo solía ir contigo cuando predicabas en la calle?
EN: - Then when you get up on the street...
ES: - Sí.
EN: Now you tell Eddie tonight. And if I know anything about men... he'll be stopping strangers on the street tomorrow, bragging about it.
ES: Díselo a Eddie hoy, y si sé algo sobre los hombres mañana detendrá a desconocidos en la calle para presumirles.
EN: They met on the street.
ES: Se encontraron en la calle.
EN: but the briefcase had just been .... silence perhaps you lost it on the street
ES: ¡Policía! ¡Policía! Pero si el maletín sólo había sido....

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