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miss by a mile
Idioms and Phrases
Fall short, fail by a considerable amount, as in Your guess as to the winner missed by a mile . This expression employs miss in the sense of âfail to hit something aimed at,â a usage dating from the late 1400s, and by a mile for a great distance or interval, so used since Shakespeare's day.Example Sentences
âI kind of had to step away from that a little bit because it wasnât a sure thing that we were going to nail it. And itâs one of those things where you miss by an inch, you miss by a mile.â
The story of a Mason County home offers a peek into how one of Seattle-based Zillowâs most popular features can miss by a mile â and how hard it is to get it right.
We wonât just miss the target, weâll miss by a mile.
The danger, though, is that online searches can be like going to the moon: if youâre off by an inch, you miss by a mile.â
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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