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Stenka25 Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of 'as the crow flies'
the meaning of 'as the crow flies'
I encounter the paragraph below in a book as follows:
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=LD6aWNjuZJkC&pg=PA35&dq=%22Anything+that+has+been+banned+by+anyone+must+be+something+I%27d+like%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Anything%20that%20has%20been%20banned%20by%20anyone%20must%20be%20something%20I%27d%20like%22&f=false
I run over to Wild Oats, the health food emporium that is just across Sunrise Boulevard, maybe a block away as the crow flies. I find Escalation and buy it, along with some leafy salad vegetables — kind of the way you buy Time magazine along With Penthouse so no one suspects you are just a pervert — and some arnica cream for these strange sores I am starting to get all over my body from scratching too much. And then run home.
However I read again and again, I cannot figure out the real meaning of the underlined "as the crow flies" not a literal meaning.
Help me out of this unfamiliar figure of speech.
Regards.
I encounter the paragraph below in a book as follows:
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=LD6aWNjuZJkC&pg=PA35&dq=%22Anything+that+has+been+banned+by+anyone+must+be+something+I%27d+like%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Anything%20that%20has%20been%20banned%20by%20anyone%20must%20be%20something%20I%27d%20like%22&f=false
I run over to Wild Oats, the health food emporium that is just across Sunrise Boulevard, maybe a block away as the crow flies. I find Escalation and buy it, along with some leafy salad vegetables — kind of the way you buy Time magazine along With Penthouse so no one suspects you are just a pervert — and some arnica cream for these strange sores I am starting to get all over my body from scratching too much. And then run home.
However I read again and again, I cannot figure out the real meaning of the underlined "as the crow flies" not a literal meaning.
Help me out of this unfamiliar figure of speech.
Regards.
Top answer
"As the crow flies" is a common idiom and actually is quite literal - the distance from one point to another if you could fly there and not have to worry about roads, buildings, walkways, etc. If you have to drive (and stay on the roads) or walk around a building, you usually have to go further than a crow would have to go, because you cannot fly. com/as+the+crow+flies
- "As the crow flies" is a common idiom and actually is quite literal - the distance from one point to another if you could fly there and not have to worry about roads, buildings, walkways, etc.
- If you have to drive (and stay on the roads) or walk around a building, you usually have to go further than a crow would have to go, because you cannot fly.
- com/as+the+crow+flies
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"As the crow flies" is a common idiom and actually is quite literal - the distance from one point to another if you could fly there and not have to worry about roads, buildings, walkways, etc.
If you have to drive (and stay on the roads) or walk around a building, you usually have to go further than a crow would have to go, because you cannot fly.
If you have to drive (and stay on the roads) or walk around a building, you usually have to go further than a crow would have to go, because you cannot fly.
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