"spitting distance" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1840, A. Traveller, Notes upon Canada and the United States: from 1832 to 1840, Rogers and Thompson (Toronto), p. 180",
          "text": "[N]o less than forty defaulters in the executive, within spitting distance of the President, have not alone been proved so, but still retain their places."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 April 27, Rudyard Kipling, quoted in \"A Fleet in Being: Men who take their chances,\" West Coast Times (New Zealand), p. 4 (retrieved 15 Oct 2010)",
          "text": "In these craft they risk the extreme perils of the sea. . . . They have been within spitting distance of collision and bumping distance of the bottom."
        },
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          "ref": "1972 September, John Pearson, “Science Worldwide”, in Popular Mechanics, page 36",
          "text": "They live within spitting distance of a busy runway at London's Heathrow Airport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Paul Levine, Trial & Error, page 120",
          "text": "\"Look around. Justice Building. County Jail. Sheriff's Department. A thousand cops within spitting distance.\"",
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        "A short distance."
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        "(idiomatic) A short distance."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "a hoot and a holler"
        },
        {
          "word": "hop, skip, and a jump"
        },
        {
          "word": "stone's throw"
        }
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        {
          "word": "shouting distance"
        }
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a short distance",
          "word": "à un jet de pierre"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a short distance",
          "word": "à deux doigts"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "dyo vímata",
          "sense": "a short distance",
          "word": "δυο βήματα"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a short distance",
          "word": "köpésnyi"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a short distance",
          "word": "kıl payı"
        }
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      "word": "a hoot and a holler"
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      "word": "hop, skip, and a jump"
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          "ref": "1840, A. Traveller, Notes upon Canada and the United States: from 1832 to 1840, Rogers and Thompson (Toronto), p. 180",
          "text": "[N]o less than forty defaulters in the executive, within spitting distance of the President, have not alone been proved so, but still retain their places."
        },
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          "ref": "1899 April 27, Rudyard Kipling, quoted in \"A Fleet in Being: Men who take their chances,\" West Coast Times (New Zealand), p. 4 (retrieved 15 Oct 2010)",
          "text": "In these craft they risk the extreme perils of the sea. . . . They have been within spitting distance of collision and bumping distance of the bottom."
        },
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          "ref": "1972 September, John Pearson, “Science Worldwide”, in Popular Mechanics, page 36",
          "text": "They live within spitting distance of a busy runway at London's Heathrow Airport.",
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          "text": "\"Look around. Justice Building. County Jail. Sheriff's Department. A thousand cops within spitting distance.\"",
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        "A short distance."
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        "(idiomatic) A short distance."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "shouting distance"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a short distance",
      "word": "à un jet de pierre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a short distance",
      "word": "à deux doigts"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dyo vímata",
      "sense": "a short distance",
      "word": "δυο βήματα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a short distance",
      "word": "köpésnyi"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a short distance",
      "word": "kıl payı"
    }
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  "word": "spitting distance"
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