spitting distance

A very short distance, as in We were in spitting distance of winning the pennant but then we lost three games in a row . Alluding to the relatively short distance over which one's spit will carry, this idiom was first recorded in 1895 as within spitting range.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Archer	-	English
Argyros	-	Ancient Greek
Davey	DAY-vee	English
Mahmud	-	Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Hodiyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Asclepius	[əs'kli:pliəs]