"cough and a spit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Film Review, page 6:",
          "text": "Ray Wise managed his back-to-black-hair role before joining Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts and James Marshall squeezed in his cough and a spit between Gladiator and joining the big boys (Nicholson, Cruise) in A Few Good Men […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Ken Whitmore, Alfred Bradley, The Final Twist: A Play, page 20:",
          "text": "Everybody gargling madly and mugging up their lines as though Shakespeare himself was out front. Don't know why I bothered, I only had a cough and a spit.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A minor role."
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        "(film, theater) A minor role."
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          "ref": "2009, David Fiddimore, The Forgotten War, page 5:",
          "text": "[…] a Lancaster squadron at Bawne, west of Cambridge — it sits a cough and a spit from the Bedfordshire border.",
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          "ref": "2013, Russell Cruse, The Rothko Room, page 258:",
          "text": "[…] Stockwell, a cough and a spit from Vauxhall Cross.",
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        "A very short distance."
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        "(UK, colloquial) A very short distance."
      ],
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          "text": "[…] Stockwell, a cough and a spit from Vauxhall Cross.",
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        "(UK, colloquial) A very short distance."
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