within touching distance

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Very close.

    • Away they started, lickety-click,” and arrived at the winning-post within touching distance of each other.
    • But the journey went on. Slower as the river became more intimate; reeds at the edge almost within touching distance. Waterfowl. A heron stalkily still. Dank lank growth and then the smells of intensive farming.
    • He will know that, for 70 minutes, United produced arguably their best performance under him as Manuel Ugarte and Diogo Dalot put them within touching distance of a place in the last four.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA