单词 | as the crow flies |
释义 | > as lemmasas the crow flies c. as the crow flies, etc.: in a direct line, without any of the detours caused by following the road. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [phrase] > by the most direct way > as the crow flies as the crow flies1803 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 110 About fifteen miles, the crow's road. 1810 Sporting Mag. 35 152 The distance..is upwards of twenty-five miles as the crow flies. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxv. 89 We cut over the fields..straight as the crow flies. 1873 F. Hall in Scribner's Monthly 6 468/2 It was full eight miles, measured by the crow, to the spot. < as lemmas |
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