as the crow flies | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)In a straight linedistancebetween twolocations, as opposed to theroaddistance or overlanddistance.Synonyms:as the gull flies,as the raven fliesIt is 15 kilometersas the crow flies.1918,Norman Lindsay,The Magic Pudding, page54:ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-eastas the crow flies.ʼ1964April, “Beyond the Channel: Jugoslavia: New line to Adriatic”, inModern Railways, page281:The distance from Sarajevo to Ploce is 75 milesas the crow flies, but because of the difficult terrain the new line is 120 miles long.2020April 22, Barry Doe, “Disappointed at lack of information on LNER website”, inRail, page65:Then it told me the distance between the two is 331 miles, which is totally irrelevant as that'sas the crow fliesand not the 393 miles of the rail route.

Examples:

EN: 1,600 miles as the crow flies, 1,800 as the horseflies.
ES: 1.600 millas a vuelo de cuervo, 1.800 a vuelo de mosca.
EN: Down south is only a thousand miles as the crow flies but ..
ES: Está a unas mil millas hacia el sur, a vuelo de pájaro.
EN: That's only 100 miles from here, as the crow flies.
ES: A 150 Km. a vuelo de pájaro.
EN: About two hundred miles northeast as the crow flies.
ES: Cerca de doscientas millas al nordeste, a vuelo de pájaro.
EN: - Not so far as the crow flies.
ES: - En línea recta no muy lejos.
EN: Forty miles north of Tulsa as the crow flies.
ES: A cuarenta millas al norte de Tulsa en línea recta.
EN: Worth thirty million as the crow flies.
ES: Que vale aproximadamente unos... 30 millones.
EN: Well, not so many miles, as the crow flies.
ES: No son muchos kilómetros.
EN: 23 by road. - 11 as the crow flies. - So you couldn't talk to him.
ES: Está claro que no os hablaba porque no entendía vuestro lenguaje.
EN: About two miles as the crow flies.
ES: Es el tercero. Unos 2 kilómetros en línea recta.
EN: About six blocks as the crow flies.
ES: A unas seis manzanas de aquí.
EN: It's 15 miles through the jungle that way as the crow flies.
ES: Son 15 millas a través de la jungla justo cuando el cuervo vuela.
EN: No, I mean as the crow flies.
ES: No, quería decir volando.
EN: Oh, about 87 as the crow flies.
ES: Unas 87, aproximadamente.
EN: Straight as the crow flies.
ES: -Tal y como lo escucha.

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