cough and a spit

Definitions

1. A minor role.
2. A very short distance.
   UK, colloquial

Examples

“Ray Wise managed his back-to-black-hair role before joining Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts and James Marshall squeezed in his cough and a spit⟳ between Gladiator and joining the big boys (Nicholson, Cruise) in A Few Good Men […]”

“Everybody gargling madly and mugging up their lines as though Shakespeare himself was out front. Don't know⟳ why I bothered, I only had a cough and a spit⟳.”

“[…] a Lancaster squadron at Bawne, west of Cambridge — it sits a cough and a spit⟳ from the Bedfordshire border⟳.”

“[…] Stockwell, a cough and a spit⟳ from Vauxhall Cross.”

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