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Meaning of within a bull's roar | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Anywhere near (a place or target).

informal

Examples

“2019, Kevin Rudd, Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion in the Guardian Much as any Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments of whichever persuasion would do whatever they could to frame new free-trade agreements with the UK, the bottom line is that 65 million of us do not come within a bull’s roar of Britain’s adjacent market of 450 million Europeans.”

“The team never came within a bull's roar of winning.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

within a whisker of within ames ace within an ace of within an inch of one's life within an inch of one's skin within call