stone's throw

See also: stonesthrow

English

Alternative forms

• stonesthrow

Pronunciation

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Noun

stone's throw (plural stone's throws)

1. (idiomatic) A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.

   Synonyms: stonecast, stone's cast, stoneshot, stone's shot

   Several trucks rushed by, a stone's throw 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.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 31, in Far From the Madding Crowd:

     He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.

Related terms

• stone-throwing

Translations

short distance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (a few steps distance) ^{(please verify)} 幾步距離／几步距离 (jǐ bù jùlí)

• Czech: co by kamenem dohodil
• Danish: stenkast n
• Dutch: steenworp (nl) m, boogscheut (nl) m
• Estonian: kiviviske kaugusel
• Finnish: kivenheitto
• French: à deux pas (fr), à un jet de pierre (fr)
• Galician: tiro de pedra m, pedrada f
• German: Steinwurf (de) m (dated), Katzensprung (de) m (literally “cat's jump”)
• Hungarian: kőhajításnyi (hu)
• Italian: due passi, tiro di schioppo m
• Norwegian: steinkast n
• Polish: rzut beretem (pl) m, rzut kamieniem m
• Portuguese: pedrada (pt) f
• Russian: руко́й пода́ть (ru) (rukój podátʹ, literally “within a hand's reach”), в двух шага́х (v dvux šagáx, literally “two steps away”)
• Scottish Gaelic: urchair chloiche f
• Spanish: a tiro de piedra
• Swedish: stenkast (sv) n
• Welsh: ergyd carreg