| 单词 | the length of a street |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe length of a street a. the length of a street: (used as the type of) a considerable or great length or distance. ΚΠ 1860 A. Robins Miriam May (ed. 3) xii. 262 I could go, were I so minded, and write all Lord Diskount had so written, and more like to it by the length of a street. 1893 Kennel Gaz. Aug. 213/2 Kitty of Coleshill was just the best of the bunch [of setters], but there was not the length of a street between her and Sister Gabrielle. 1956 Times 21 July 7 It was emphatically a perfectly fair course... We won the event ‘by the length of a street’, and none of our horses fell. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Sport section) 12 Leicester lost their opening fixture last season and still won their fourth straight title by the length of a street. < as lemmas |
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