using right up alley for people

[alpacinou]

Can the idiom "right up alley" be used for people? Are these okay?

1. I found a girl who's right up your alley. She's smart and funny and the cherry on top is that, like you, she's into rugby. I can set you up on a date.
2. The people at the company are right up your alley. They're a bunch of energetic party animals.
3. The people who go to this pub are right up his alley: a bunch of scum low-lifes.

 

[Skrej]

They're okay.

 

[5jj]

I'd use 'street' rather than 'alley'.

 

[Peedeebee]

I'd also suggest that in Britain, the idiom "street" is probably the original one, and "alley" say, in Yorkshire, is a slang version of that, for added (dry) humour.

 

[alpacinou]

I saw in the dictionary that the British version is "right up street". Although I found a video in which a British speaker says "alley":

https://imgur.com/5mMiuFe

 

[emsr2d2]

"scum low-lifes" doesn't work. Reverse it and say "low-life scum".

 

[emsr2d2]

Both "right up one's street" and "right up one's alley" are used.