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Mr. Tom Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Far cry of something

Hi

Are these sentences natural?

What he did was a far cry from discipline.
What we were offered was a far cry from good refreshment.
Her efforts to maintain peace are a far cry from sincerity and devotion.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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I am not a native English speaker but I would say they don't seem to be correct. In you examples, you are comparing an "action" with a "quality" which I think is not right. I would rather say: What he did was a far cry from discipline.

— MIG

  • I am not a native English speaker but I would say they don't seem to be correct.
  • In you examples, you are comparing an "action" with a "quality" which I think is not right.
  • I would rather say: What he did was a far cry from discipline.
  • What we were offered was a far cry from good refreshment.
  • Her effort to maintain peace are a far cry from sincerity and devotion.
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I am not a native English speaker but I would say they don't seem to be correct.
In you examples, you are comparing an "action" with a "quality" which I think is not right.

I would rather say:
What he did was a far cry from discipline.
What we were offered
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Mr. TomAre these sentence natural?
I think they are OK—the problem for me is that the idiom is a little fanciful for those uses. I take MIG's point, though, with #1 in particular.
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