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stone's throw

noun

  1. a short distance:

    The railroad station is only a stone's throw from our house.



stone's throw

noun

  1. a short distance Also calledstonecast
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stone's throw1

First recorded in 1575–85
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Example Sentences

Then there are those worshippers who are just a stones throw away from all the action because they live in The Old City.

Great forest trees stand like sentinels within a stones throw of the house.

Not more than a stones throw from this promontory is a small islet called the Isle of the Robones.

Roxalana herself was buried in all due state not a stones throw from the spot where her sovereign lord afterwards found his rest.

Thus we talk of Carlyle still, a stones throw from his study windows.

Joinville has told of a sink of corruption lying within a stones throw of the saint-kings crusading camp.

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