| 单词 | miss by a mile |
| 释义 | miss by a mileSEE SYNONYMS FOR miss by a mile ON THESAURUS.COM 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 “fail to hit something aimed at,” a usage dating from the late 1400s, and by a mile for a great distance or interval, so used since Shakespeare's day. Words nearby miss by a milemiss a beat, missa cantata, missal, missal stand, missay, miss by a mile, missed abortion, missed labor, misseem, mis-sell, missel thrush 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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