stone's throw

English

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Noun

stone's throw

1. (idiomatic) A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
   • 1 March 2018, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans?

     A stone's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury, home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 31,

     He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.

Translations

short distance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (a few steps distance) ^{(please verify)} 幾步距離／几步距离, ^{(please verify)} 几步距离 (jǐ bù jùlí)

• Danish: stenkast n
• Dutch: steenworp (nl) m, boogscheut (nl) m
• Estonian: kiviviske kaugusel
• Finnish: kivenheitto
• French: à deux pas (fr), à un jet de pierre (fr)
• German: Steinwurf (de) m, (cat's jump) Katzensprung (de) m
• Hungarian: kőhajításnyi
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• Italian: tiro di schioppo m
• Norwegian: steinkast n
• Polish: rzut beretem (pl) m, rzut kamieniem m
• Portuguese: pedrada (pt) f
• Russian: (within a hand's reach) руко́й пода́ть (rukój podátʹ), (two steps away) в двух шага́х (v dvux šagáx)
• Scottish Gaelic: urchair chloiche f
• Spanish: a tiro de piedra
• Welsh: ergyd carreg