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词汇 hop, skip, and a jump
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hop, skip, and a jump
Theme: DISTANCE
a short distance. (Fixed order.)
Her house was just a hop, skip, and a jump away from mine, so we visited often.Our town is just a hop, skip, and a jump from a big city, so we get the advantages of the city and of country life.

hop, skip, and a jump

A short distance, as in It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from my house to yours. This expression, dating from the early 1700s, originally referred to an exercise or game involving these movements, but by the mid-1800s was also being used figuratively for the short distance so covered.
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