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spitting distance
noun
- a short space or distance
Idioms and Phrases
A very short distance, as in We were in spitting distance of winning the pennant but then we lost three games in a row . Alluding to the relatively short distance over which one's spit will carry, this idiom was first recorded in 1895 as within spitting range .Example Sentences
But even standing within spitting distance of The Pearl was close enough for me to envision better days ahead.
By midafternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, nearing 14,100, was in spitting distance of a record-setting close.
If one of us happened to get within spitting distance of a window, up would go their noses and down would come the saliva.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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