Throw someone

[nq:1]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her. (P.Cornwell) This is a sentence from a novel. My ... 'wouldn't trust her'? Is this an idiom? Very funny expression. It must mean that I wouldn't trust her at all.[/nq]
Yup. An AV search on "as far as I could throw" throws up 14,000 hits, so it's a very common expression also.

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[nq:1]It must mean that I wouldn't trust her at all.[/nq]
You are correct in your guess.
People are difficult to throw very far. It is a common saying where I come from.{USA}

[nq:1]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her. (P.Cornwell) This is a sentence from a novel. My question is about ' throw her', How is this phrase is related to 'wouldn't trust her'? Is this an idiom? Very funny expression.[/nq]
It's a cliché so unless you can inject some extra something, no, it isn't funny.

"He's asking if you killed Freddie Miles and then killed Dickie Gree

[nq:2]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw ... 'wouldn't trust her'? Is this an idiom? Very funny expression.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's a cliché so unless you can inject some extra something, no, it isn't funny.[/nq]
You can't find a cliché funny? That's equivalent to saying you can't laugh at the same joke twice, but people do it all the time. Most slapstick humour, for example, depends on

[nq:1]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her. (P.Cornwell) This is a sentence from a novel. My ... 'wouldn't trust her'? Is this an idiom? Very funny expression. It must mean that I wouldn't trust her at all.[/nq]
Well, yes. But in the absence of any context, I can't rule out the possibility that you have encountered "throw" in the sense "confuse" or "disconcert." Take a look at

[nq:2]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw ... 'wouldn't trust her'? Is this an idiom? Very funny expression.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's a cliché so unless you can inject some extra something, no, it isn't funny.[/nq]
The variant "I wouldn't trust her as far as I can throw a grand piano" has also become a cliché.

Robin

[nq:2]I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw ... It must mean that I wouldn't trust her at all.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, yes. But in the absence of any context, I can't rule out the possibility that you have encountered "throw" in the sense "confuse" or "disconcert." Take a look at , definition 5.[/nq]
But the context is "trust her as far as I could throw her". Which has never had anything t

[nq:2]It's a cliché so unless you can inject some extra something, no, it isn't funny.[/nq]
[nq:1]You can't find a cliché funny? That's equivalent to saying you can't laugh at the same joke twice, but people do it all the time.[/nq]
The way to find a cliché funny is to add in that something extra I was talking about.
[nq:1]Most slapstick humour, for example, depends on that response; t