An approximate distance in the outback, usually taking longer to walk than an actual mile due to the rough nature of the terrain.
before her lay a walk of three bush miles to her mother's home
that ten minutes, like the proverbial bush mile, extended into an hour
Example sentencesExamples
- It would be a journey of twenty to thirty bush miles.
- Bush miles seem to vary according to the mood of the fellow you meet.
- It was not far to the railroad; a half-mile of hilly country — perhaps a bush mile.
- It lay no more than one bush-mile inland from the shoreline town.
- I've never been able to work out how long a bush mile is.