"within a bull's roar" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

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  1. (informal, chiefly in negative constructions) Anywhere near (a place or target). Tags: informal
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          "text": "2019, Kevin Rudd, Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion in the Guardian\nMuch as any Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments of whichever persuasion would do whatever they could to frame new free-trade agreements with the UK, the bottom line is that 65 million of us do not come within a bull’s roar of Britain’s adjacent market of 450 million Europeans."
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          "text": "The team never came within a bull's roar of winning."
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        "(informal, chiefly in negative constructions) Anywhere near (a place or target)."
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