as the crow flies
Meaning: Directly or in a straight line, without roads.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Animals
Origin: The expression is used to describe the distance between two points as an airplane or bird might fly, without taking into account the twists and turns in the road.
More idioms — Animals
- beat a dead horse — To argue or pursue a point or topic without the possibility of success.
- big fish in a small pond — A person who is considered important primarily because the place or setting is small.
- black sheep — An outcast.
- bug — To bother, annoy, or irritate mildly.
- bull in a china shop — Insensitive to delicate situations; to be so clumsy that one breaks things inadvertently.
- chicken — Scared; frightened.
More English idioms
- chicken out — To become too frightened to do something; to lose one's nerve.
- clam up — To not say anything.
- cock-and-bull story — A story that is too unlikely to be believed.
- cook someone's goose — To ruin someone's plans.
- crocodile tears — False, exaggerated tears.
- cry wolf — To raise a false alarm or exaggerate so often that one is no longer believed.
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