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spitting distance

noun

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  1. A short distance.

    • [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.
    • They live within spitting distance of a busy runway at London's Heathrow Airport.

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