within a bull's roar

prepositional phrase

Anywhere near (a place or target).

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

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. informalAnywhere near (a place or target).

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

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    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.

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APA

within a bull's roar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/within%20a%20bull's%20roar

MLA

“within a bull's roar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/within%20a%20bull's%20roar. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “within a bull's roar,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/within%20a%20bull's%20roar.

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