within a bull's roar
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Prepositional phrase edit
- (informal, chiefly in negative constructions) Anywhere near (a place or target).
- 2019, Kevin Rudd, Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion in the Guardian
- Much as any Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments of whichever persuasion would do whatever they could to frame new free-trade agreements with the UK, the bottom line is that 65 million of us do not come within a bull’s roar of Britain’s adjacent market of 450 million Europeans.
- The team never came within a bull's roar of winning.
- 2019, Kevin Rudd, Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion in the Guardian