a stone's throw

/ɐ stˈəʊnz θɹˈəʊ/

/ɐ stˈoʊnz θɹˈoʊ/

[phrase]

a stone's throw

[PHRASE]

a distance that is very short

Examples

1. One day he saw an advertisement for a suitable house in Hampshire which was claimed to be within a stone's throw of a railway station from which there were frequent trains to London.

2. She lives just a stone's throw away from the beach.

3. Now I've come to this mountainous peninsula, a stone's throw from the island of Sicily, to investigate Italy's most mysterious and powerful Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta.

4. It just depends on gravity and the length of the pendulum and, of course, the displacement, which is a stone's throw away from showing that for the bowling ball's period.