stone's throw
noun1
Idiomatic A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
- A couple of grown-ups was standing a couple of stone's throws away from us.
- 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.
1 more example
- He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 31, in Far From the Madding Crowd:
- Related terms
- stone-throwing