a stone's throw

释义

1. 很近的距离；不远处

   a very short distance away

   We live just a stone's throw from here.我们就住在附近。

电影里这样说 · 6 部

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

在完整场景里学

• 印度之行1984
  • 清真寺夜遇英国太太：in the same box（同病相怜）
  • 英印聚会话不投机：an exercise in power（权力的操演）
  • 茶会聊出岩洞之约：a muddle（一团乱麻）

同一词条的短语

• 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