a stone's throw

Meaning

1. a very short distance away

   We live just a stone's throw from here.

In the movies · 6

• Signal the Stone Throwers, now!Robin Hood2018
• All right, first rule: No throwing stones.Thir13en Ghosts2001
• You may have the right to throw stones for that sort of thing, but I haven't.A Passage to India1984
• Men. Women. Childs. Dogs. No, they don't. Throw stones. Beat me. Everywhere! Everywhere!National Theatre Live: Frankenstein2011
• Just have one person throw stones at us.Year One2009
• A KIND, GENTLE MAN OF A FATHER WHO -- WHO TEACHES HIM TO THROW STONES ACROSS THE WATER!Dear Frankie2004

Learn it in full scenes

• A Passage to India1984
  • Aziz Meets Mrs Moore in the Mosque
  • The Bridge Party at the Club
  • Aziz Invites Them to the Marabar Caves

From the same entry

• carved in stone
• leave no stone unturned
• like getting blood out of a stone
• have a heart of stone
• kill two birds with one stone
• people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• a rolling stone gathers no moss
• stone the crows