spitting distance

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

spitting distances 复数 spitting distances

别名

shouting distance

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A short distance.

    习语

    [N]o less than forty defaulters in the executive, within spitting distance of the President, have not alone been proved so, but still retain their places.

    In these craft they risk the extreme perils of the sea. . . . They have been within spitting distance of collision and bumping distance of the bottom.