OXFORD 9000
📚 adv • entry_id 22685

as the crow flies

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a campo traviesa • a campo travieso • a campo través • a vuelo de pájaro • campo a traviesa • campo a través
In a straight line distance between two locations, as opposed to the road distance or over land distance.
It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.
ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.ʼ
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