spitting distance: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A very short distance; close enough to be reached easily, figuratively derived from the distance one could spit.
Examples
BetaThe café is just spitting distance from my apartment; I can easily walk there in five minutes.
La cafetería está a poca distancia de mi apartamento; puedo llegar caminando fácilmente en cinco minutos.
Is the library within spitting distance, or do we need to take a bus to get there?
¿Está la biblioteca a poca distancia o tenemos que tomar un autobús para llegar?
Their new house is spitting distance from the beach, perfect for summer vacations.
Su nueva casa está a un tiro de piedra de la playa, perfecta para las vacaciones de verano.
Although the office looks far on the map, it’s actually spitting distance once you get out of the subway.
Aunque la oficina parece lejos en el mapa, en realidad está a poca distancia una vez que sales del metro.
Examples:
- EN: I bet she's got a bedsitter within spitting distance.ES: Apuesto a que tiene una cama esperando a tiro de piedra.
- EN: Well, we should get within spitting distance during the graveyard watch.ES: Bueno, deberíamos estar a poca distancia. durante la guardia del cementerio.
- EN: That spitting distance or what?ES: ¿Está cerca o qué?
- EN: - With those things almost within spitting distance, we're not even gonna get an eagle up off the pad.ES: Con esas naves casi encima no puede despegar un Águila.
- EN: What the hell would we be doing refueling a Harrier within spitting distance of Russia?ES: ¿Por qué diablos deberíamos reabastecer un Harrier estando tan cerca de Rusia?
- EN: He's got 80 yards of electrified fence spitting distance to the house.ES: Tiene 73 m de cerco electrificado a dos pasos de la casa.
- EN: - Twenty seconds from spitting distance.ES: - A veinte segundos.
- EN: Within spitting distance.ES: - A corta distancia.
- EN: Which doesn't make him guilty, but he did have access to the pathogen, and he does live spitting distance to Union Station.ES: Lo que no lo hace culpable, pero tenía acceso al patógeno y vive muy cerca de la Estación Union.
- EN: I don't know, maybe 12,000 other establishments within spitting distance!ES: No sé, quizás otros 12,000 establecimientos a tiro de piedra!
- EN: You think if there was a monster truck jamboree anywhere within spitting distance of this place, we'd be here?ES: ¿Cree que si hubiera cerca una muestra de camiones gigantes estaríamos aquí?
- EN: But you combine it, with what you're already bringing home, you're going to be within spitting distance of what you're making last year.ES: Pero sumado a lo que ya ganas, te quedarías a un escupitajo de lo que ganabas el año pasado.
- EN: Look. Two nights ago they had planes on patrol within spitting distance of where Colonel Howard's body was found.ES: Hace dos noches, tenían dos aviones patrullando muy cerca de donde encontraron el cuerpo del coronel Howard.
- EN: She died within spitting distance of the street. But hey!ES: Murió al lado de la calle pero ¡hey!
- EN: If he's within spitting distance, I want him in custody immediately.ES: Si se encuentra en una distancia considerable, lo quiero en custodia inmediatamente.
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