1. Home
2. Idioms
3. a mile off

a mile off

---

---

a mile off

Very easily. Always of something detected or observed. I can spot Paul a mile off, just by the way he walks. After decades as an investigator, I can identify a con man a mile off.

See also: mile, off

a mile off

  (informal)

if you can see or recognize something a mile off, you notice it very easily It's obvious he fancies you - you can see that a mile off.

See also: mile, off