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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. Also called: stonecast.a short distance

“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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On a bright morning, just a stone's throw from where he grew up and went to school, people lined the street on their knees to watch his coffin pass by.

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Chavez: Not quite a stone’s throw but pretty close.

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Heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham in 1968 and held their first rehearsal at Newtown Community Centre, a stone's throw from Villa Park.

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He was born in February 1922, at number one Goat Street, a stone's throw from the old Vetch Field, where the club played.

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We are sitting in her small cottage in East Keal, a quiet village on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and just a stone's throw from a number of RAF stations.

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