real English?

[bmdamare at UMICH.EDU]

A simple google search could have answered your question.  Very rare, 
yes.  Nonexistent, no.  It could be just a "wrong" expression that's 
picked up some currency, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.


Quoting "colkitto at rogers.com" <colkitto at ROGERS.COM>:

> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From:  bmdamare at UMICH.EDU
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:48:33 -0400
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] real English?
>
>
>> There is an English expression "at an arm's throw",
>
> There is??????????
>
>
>> although it's far
> less common than "a stone's throw".
>
> To the point of non-existence?
>
>
>> I'd stick with the stone, as well.
>
>
> Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:
>
>> I'm not familiar with "at a throw of a hand"; perhaps it's British or
>> something. We do have a phrase "a stone's throw from (somewhere)"
>> meaning "near (somewhere)," but your listener will have to be
>> exceptionally insightful to guess that from "at a throw of a hand."
>
>
> - Brad Damare'
> Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> University of Michigan
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