| 单词 | within miles of |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithin miles (also a mile) of e. within miles (also a mile) of: (in negative contexts) close to; within striking distance; near enough to reach, attain, or achieve (something). ΚΠ 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xi. 82 I am so far from trenching upon poetry at any time, that I never, to my knowledge, got within ten thousand miles of it.] 1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xxiii, in Cent. Mag. July 360/1 Then I began to throw good money after bad, just as I always did with everything that Rogers ever came within a mile of. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 282 Awful fuss always made about him. No swell within miles of him. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. vii. 38 Not that the boys drew back..but..not one of them came within miles of being..Mister Right. 1973 L. Snelling Heresy i. vii. 52 The French technicians are all..very Lefty... He can keep them from getting within a mile of the set. 1986 Glasgow Herald 19 June 1/5 This project would not have come within a mile of being economically viable. < as lemmas |
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