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Definition of mile in English: milenoun mʌɪlmaɪl 1A unit of linear measure equal to 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometres). 英里（长度单位，等于1, 760码，约合1.609公里） Example sentencesExamples - Families then move a few miles or kilometers away to an area richer in resources.
- If we had another five miles [8 kilometers] to go, we might not have all made it.
- It seems to me like if it takes more kilometers to make a mile, then it should take more kilograms to make a pound.
- In this new, higher orbit, the craft's linear velocity, measured in miles per hour, was greater than before.
- The earth is approximately 93 million miles / 150 million kilometers from the sun.
- Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles (five kilometers) away and had rough water.
- A hunt can last from a few seconds to several minutes and cover up to two miles (three kilometers).
- In one area some 10 square miles [25 square kilometers] of the city was completely flattened.
- It is expected that the Government will soon switch the speed limits from miles to kilometres.
- The newly discovered town is about five miles (eight kilometers) from the coast.
- Cross-channel trains reach speeds of up to 160 kilometers, or 100 miles per hour.
- The tsunami swept everything before it for up to five miles (eight kilometers) inland.
- Patti said kilometers are shorter than miles, but the walk was still really long.
- Every five seconds counted is equal to approximately one mile between you and the storm.
- Each village is considered to own three miles into the forest in every direction.
- There were plenty of supporters to cheer on the women as they set off along a five kilometre course - three miles - around the estate.
- I'd have said it was more like 3.7 miles rather than kilometres.
- The same numbers apply if I measure distance in miles or centimeters or any other unit.
- First of all, if you came from Athens, you had to walk 210 miles [340 kilometers] to get to the site.
- I suspect it may also be the fault of the speed limits changing from miles per hour to kilometres per hour.
- 1.1 A race extending over a mile.
一英里赛跑 he rode the fastest mile of his entire career in 1914 Example sentencesExamples - The three-year-old colt had won each of his five starts this year, all Group I races at a mile.
- 1.2historical A Roman measure of 1,000 paces (approximately 1,620 yards).
〈史〉千步（古罗马长度，约合1, 620码） Example sentencesExamples - Etched into the stone are the Roman numerals LIII, the distance in Roman miles to Carlisle.
2usually milesinformal A very long way or a very great amount. 〈非正式〉很大距离（或量） vistas which stretch for miles 一望无际的景色。 this is my favourite film by a mile Example sentencesExamples - Just stroll down Boca Chica Beach, a remote stretch of beach and dunes surrounded by miles of brush and cactus.
- A part of him refused to entertain the notion that when he reached its edge, he would be confronted by miles of unrelenting desert sand.
- The US has the highest rates of incarceration in the civilized world, and I mean we hold the record by miles.
- And for those who rarely venture South of the river - this beats every bar in West London by miles.
- Apart from The West Wing, it's the best thing on television by miles and miles.
- Woods then bogeyed the ninth for the third time this week to see his lead cut to two after a wild second that missed the green by miles.
- These small dwellings, each separated by miles of forest, will provide nightly respite from the rain.
- In winning their medals, the two Scotsmen moved British cycling onwards by miles.
- The guitar was the 20th century's most popular instrument by miles.
- They were surrounded by miles of forest, moose and black bear, and few people.
- And that is still, in my opinion, the best American blog by miles.
- All afternoon I'd missed much bigger targets by miles!
- Never mind that the VCD is an inferior video format and is separated by miles of digital excellence from the DVD.
- And it wasn't a close win - it was a win by miles, so that was nice.
- It's my favourite album of the year by miles and miles.
- Villages, let alone pubs, don't grow on trees in this part of the world: we simply took the wrong route and missed it by miles.
- The deer taught her how to run, and keep running for miles at a steady pace.
- Readers would miss the bottom by miles if I were to proffer such advice.
- It missed the other man by miles, instead coming to rest beside Eric's desk.
- Parents have been told their closure-hit school is not rural - although it is surrounded by miles of fields and there are no shops.
Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses
adverbmʌɪlmaɪl as submodifier milesinformal By a great amount or a long way. 〈非正式〉在很大程度上；以很大距离 the second tape is miles better 第二盒磁带好多了。 Example sentencesExamples - He hasn't looked happy so far in the championship at centre half-back and was miles off the pace in the frenetic first twenty minutes.
Synonyms preoccupied, diverted, inattentive, vague, absorbed, engrossed, abstracted, distrait, distant, absent, absent-minded, faraway
Phrasesinformal Be lost in thought and unaware of what is happening around one. 〈非正式〉心不在焉；走神 I was thinking about something else - I was miles away Example sentencesExamples - Part of your mind was focussing on the road, but you were miles away.
- I could stare straight ahead but be miles away in seconds.
Make a special effort to achieve something. state regulators will go the extra mile to ensure that this settlement is as investor-friendly as possible Example sentencesExamples - Carol went the extra mile with this and her diligence has led directly to the discovery of nearly half a million contraband cigarettes.
- Now is an ideal time to go the extra mile with extra service or courtesy.
- Providers need to be well trained and academically affiliated providers who can expend the time and effort to go the extra mile for their patients.
- The private hospitality outlets generally did not have this approach, but went the extra mile to ensure good value - and those are the places where we stayed longer and spent more money.
- The Lifetime Achievement Award is for a person who has gone the extra mile in the course of their paid duties or voluntary work and has demonstrated a lifelong dedication.
- More companies should take the extra steps, go the extra mile to show some pride in their product and support the people who paid good money to buy their game.
- It is worth going that extra mile when you know they've gone the extra mile to accommodate you.
- When you go the extra mile for your students, they are more likely to go the extra mile for you.
- Professionalism for the rest of us means being willing to go the extra mile and work the extra hours.
- Our ideal candidate will also be a determined achiever, that is, a person who goes the extra mile to achieve personal goals.
informal Very quickly. 〈非正式〉很快，飞快 他说话像连珠炮。 Example sentencesExamples - The admiral stared at the blank screen for a few more minutes, his mind whirling a mile a minute.
- She reappeared just as quickly, talking a mile a minute.
- Anna was breathing fast, and her heart was racing a mile a minute.
- Thousands of emotions were rushing through my body a mile a minute.
- From his home in Prince Edward Island, words spill out at a mile a minute as he describes his life as a fiddler and stepdancer.
- Within minutes, Scott had Ellie talking a mile a minute about everything she could think of.
- He appears in many of the films just as he is in person - talking a mile a minute from behind thick glasses, his tongue working overtime to keep up with the rapid-fire messages from his brain.
- Apparently, he pulled the ‘nicknames’ out of his head a mile a minute.
- Right now, he's shooting his mouth off a mile a minute on his mobile.
- And we've got to wonder, if you're able to talk a mile a minute on the ground, how do you calculate the speed of speech at cruising altitude?
Synonyms quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly
informal In a very isolated place. 〈非正式〉与世隔绝 it can be lonely, living miles from anywhere Example sentencesExamples - There was one large house, and eight smaller ones, miles from anywhere else.
- A million miles from anywhere, it is America's most far-flung state but its isolated beauty is a huge attraction for adventures and honeymooners.
- They were miles from anywhere and mum couldn't get a signal on her mobile phone, so she had to walk quite a way to get help.
- Nobody thought York was a possibility, because it's miles from anywhere.
- The fortuitous setting of the Bilderberg Jan Luyken means that it overcomes the usual annoying paradox of hotels in major cities: the ones close to everything are too noisy, and the ones quiet enough to permit sleep are miles from anywhere.
- Hundreds and hundreds of miles from anywhere, the spot was the very ‘climax of desolation,’ as one of Stuart's fellow explorers once put it, and Stuart and his men had gone through hell to get there.
- When I worked for Bright Star they had their store in an old military bomb store miles from anywhere.
- I couldn't go for a walk because the house was miles from anywhere and it was surrounded by plains.
- Breezily, reassuringly, I said ‘Oh well, it's not like we're miles from anywhere.’
- You'll feel a million miles from anywhere, especially at night, yet you're only a 15-minute cab ride from town (and there's a free minibus).
humorous Used in reference to having sex on an aircraft. 〈幽默〉高空俱乐部（指在飞机上做爱） she joined the mile-high club by making love on a flight between New York and LA 她在纽约飞往洛杉矶的航班上做爱，加入了高空俱乐部。 Example sentencesExamples - BA said there are one or two couples caught each year trying to join the mile-high club on its flights.
- After a trip to the mile-high club, Oliver and Emily begin an unlikely relationship that'll develop over their adult lives.
- At this point, he got a wicked (if rather glassy) gleam in his eye and mentioned the mile-high club.
- I was about to get to the part where I became a member of the mile-high club, when I noticed everyone had joined in another conversation.
- Uses the pick-up line, ‘So, are you a member of the mile-high club?’
informal Used with reference to a situation regarded as frightening or alarming. if someone proposed to me I'd probably run a mile 假如有人向我求婚，我可能会逃之夭夭的。 Example sentencesExamples - The fact that the police are running a mile from wanting to enforce this speaks volumes.
- When I was at school I would have run a mile if I someone said a politician was going to give a lecture!
- Politicians and education bureaucrats are running a mile after parents in Moray saw off their efforts to close umpteen rural schools.
- I needed somebody to overpower, dominate and control me, which was what I knew and was comfortable with, and actually, if I had met a man who was supportive and gentle, I'd have probably run a mile.
- If anyone says to me that those things are the big thing for autumn/winter, I run a mile.
- Executives who would run a mile if approached on the Tube by one of these youths have decided they are the vessels through which the community is represented.
- Football people - players, managers, chairmen - are so used to being asked soft questions that they would probably run a mile from a programme that demanded outright frankness from its guests.
- For youngsters such as 15-year-old Princess Beatrice and her younger sister, Eugenie, the traditional Easter Day church service meant braving the cameras in the type of garb which would send the average teenager running a mile.
- If an asylum seeker is told they have to seek the permission of the Minister or seek legal advice, they will probably run a mile.
- If you ask them to help with some literacy they run a mile.
see (or tell or spot) something a mile off informal Recognize something very easily. 〈非正式〉很容易辨认 the baddies can be spotted a mile off 坏蛋很容易辨认。 Example sentencesExamples - You can spot them a mile off - crew cuts, their best going-to-court suit and a black rubbish bag full of their stuff.
- I don't quite know what it is, but I can still spot it a mile off.
- Thing is, there are still a lot that don't know how to carry this off successfully and you're going to be able to spot them a mile off.
- Book lovers can spot a heavyweight writer a mile off.
- The ‘scary’ bits are so clichéd they can be seen a mile off.
- You spot them a mile off and they were packing the boat this morning to town.
- If you put grass cuttings in your bin they spot it a mile off.
- ‘We really were sure that we'd spot the secret shopper a mile off but we really, honestly didn't ’, she says.
- It is occasionally a little corny dramatically and the plot twists can be seen a mile off but technically the film works.
- Viewers have become so adept at decoding adverts that your average post-modern couch potato can spot a marketing strategy a mile off.
stand (or stick) out a mile informal Be very obvious. 〈非正式〉显而易见，一目了然；格格不入 his skill stood out a mile Example sentencesExamples - They stand out a mile, and their final act of defiance is appallingly preposterous and embarrassing.
- I stood out a mile, a huge, rustling, fluorescent yellow blob on the green landscape of life.
- Like, you know, when someone on a soap opera goes undercover, they wear a hat and yet they're the only one wearing a hat so they stick out a mile.
- As it was, he was also wearing his travelling gear, painfully bright clothing that stood out a mile against his dark skin.
- And any review must surely consider whether Salesbury Hall should host the show again - when the problems of getting large numbers of people to and from that location stand out a mile.
- For a team on a bit of roll like Aberdeen (three wins and a draw in their last four games) their odds stuck out a mile.
- His performance stands out a mile and there isn't enough of him.
- But the two nuns stood out a mile - both were dressed in their habits and both were tall, strong looking women.
- It stood out a mile against the milky-white skin.
- It's worrying that mistakes that would stand out a mile to patients are being taken as gospel for all sorts of decisions made by healthcare staff, insurers and solicitors.
Synonyms clear, plain, plain to see, crystal clear, evident, apparent, manifest, patent, conspicuous, pronounced, transparent, clear-cut, palpable, prominent, marked, decided, salient, striking, distinct, bold, noticeable, perceptible, perceivable, visible, discernible, detectable, observable, tangible, recognizable
OriginOld English mīl, based on Latin mil(l)ia, plural of mille 'thousand' (the original Roman unit of distance was mille passus 'a thousand paces'). Where Roman legions marched they left roads, bridges, and other works of civil engineering. One thousand paces (or two thousand steps) marched by disciplined troops became a fixed and useful unit of measurement of distance—in Latin this was mille passus or mille passuum ‘one thousand paces’, later shortened to simple mille. The word entered most of the languages of Europe. When you urge someone to go the extra mile, ‘to make a special effort to achieve something’, you are echoing the Bible. In the Sermon on the Mount, in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, ‘And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain’ (two). See also inch, miss, million
Rhymesaisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, Nile, pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile, worthwhile Definition of mile in US English: mile(also statute mile) nounmaɪlmīl 1A unit of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometers). 英里（长度单位，等于1, 760码，约合1.609公里） Example sentencesExamples - Patti said kilometers are shorter than miles, but the walk was still really long.
- The tsunami swept everything before it for up to five miles (eight kilometers) inland.
- I suspect it may also be the fault of the speed limits changing from miles per hour to kilometres per hour.
- The newly discovered town is about five miles (eight kilometers) from the coast.
- If we had another five miles [8 kilometers] to go, we might not have all made it.
- It seems to me like if it takes more kilometers to make a mile, then it should take more kilograms to make a pound.
- In one area some 10 square miles [25 square kilometers] of the city was completely flattened.
- Families then move a few miles or kilometers away to an area richer in resources.
- I'd have said it was more like 3.7 miles rather than kilometres.
- A hunt can last from a few seconds to several minutes and cover up to two miles (three kilometers).
- The earth is approximately 93 million miles / 150 million kilometers from the sun.
- Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles (five kilometers) away and had rough water.
- Each village is considered to own three miles into the forest in every direction.
- It is expected that the Government will soon switch the speed limits from miles to kilometres.
- Every five seconds counted is equal to approximately one mile between you and the storm.
- The same numbers apply if I measure distance in miles or centimeters or any other unit.
- There were plenty of supporters to cheer on the women as they set off along a five kilometre course - three miles - around the estate.
- First of all, if you came from Athens, you had to walk 210 miles [340 kilometers] to get to the site.
- Cross-channel trains reach speeds of up to 160 kilometers, or 100 miles per hour.
- In this new, higher orbit, the craft's linear velocity, measured in miles per hour, was greater than before.
- 1.1historical A Roman measure of 1,000 paces (approximately 1,620 yards).
〈史〉千步（古罗马长度，约合1, 620码） Example sentencesExamples - Etched into the stone are the Roman numerals LIII, the distance in Roman miles to Carlisle.
- 1.2usually milesinformal A very long way or a very great amount.
〈非正式〉很大距离（或量） vistas that stretch for miles 一望无际的景色。 Example sentencesExamples - Villages, let alone pubs, don't grow on trees in this part of the world: we simply took the wrong route and missed it by miles.
- Apart from The West Wing, it's the best thing on television by miles and miles.
- They were surrounded by miles of forest, moose and black bear, and few people.
- And it wasn't a close win - it was a win by miles, so that was nice.
- Woods then bogeyed the ninth for the third time this week to see his lead cut to two after a wild second that missed the green by miles.
- Parents have been told their closure-hit school is not rural - although it is surrounded by miles of fields and there are no shops.
- Just stroll down Boca Chica Beach, a remote stretch of beach and dunes surrounded by miles of brush and cactus.
- Never mind that the VCD is an inferior video format and is separated by miles of digital excellence from the DVD.
- Readers would miss the bottom by miles if I were to proffer such advice.
- It's my favourite album of the year by miles and miles.
- The US has the highest rates of incarceration in the civilized world, and I mean we hold the record by miles.
- These small dwellings, each separated by miles of forest, will provide nightly respite from the rain.
- It missed the other man by miles, instead coming to rest beside Eric's desk.
- And that is still, in my opinion, the best American blog by miles.
- The deer taught her how to run, and keep running for miles at a steady pace.
- A part of him refused to entertain the notion that when he reached its edge, he would be confronted by miles of unrelenting desert sand.
- All afternoon I'd missed much bigger targets by miles!
- And for those who rarely venture South of the river - this beats every bar in West London by miles.
- The guitar was the 20th century's most popular instrument by miles.
- In winning their medals, the two Scotsmen moved British cycling onwards by miles.
Synonyms a large amount, a fair amount, a good deal, a great deal, a deal, a great quantity, quantities, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, plenty, masses - 1.3 A race extending over a mile.
一英里赛跑 Example sentencesExamples - The three-year-old colt had won each of his five starts this year, all Group I races at a mile.
adverbmaɪlmīl as submodifier milesinformal By a great amount or a long way. 〈非正式〉在很大程度上；以很大距离 the second tape is miles better 第二盒磁带好多了。 Example sentencesExamples - He hasn't looked happy so far in the championship at centre half-back and was miles off the pace in the frenetic first twenty minutes.
Synonyms preoccupied, diverted, inattentive, vague, absorbed, engrossed, abstracted, distrait, distant, absent, absent-minded, faraway
Phrasesinformal Be lost in thought and consequently unaware of what is happening around one. 〈非正式〉心不在焉；走神 Example sentencesExamples - Part of your mind was focussing on the road, but you were miles away.
- I could stare straight ahead but be miles away in seconds.
Be especially assiduous in one's attempt to achieve something. 特别勤奋 Example sentencesExamples - More companies should take the extra steps, go the extra mile to show some pride in their product and support the people who paid good money to buy their game.
- It is worth going that extra mile when you know they've gone the extra mile to accommodate you.
- Carol went the extra mile with this and her diligence has led directly to the discovery of nearly half a million contraband cigarettes.
- Now is an ideal time to go the extra mile with extra service or courtesy.
- Providers need to be well trained and academically affiliated providers who can expend the time and effort to go the extra mile for their patients.
- The Lifetime Achievement Award is for a person who has gone the extra mile in the course of their paid duties or voluntary work and has demonstrated a lifelong dedication.
- Professionalism for the rest of us means being willing to go the extra mile and work the extra hours.
- Our ideal candidate will also be a determined achiever, that is, a person who goes the extra mile to achieve personal goals.
- When you go the extra mile for your students, they are more likely to go the extra mile for you.
- The private hospitality outlets generally did not have this approach, but went the extra mile to ensure good value - and those are the places where we stayed longer and spent more money.
informal Very quickly. 〈非正式〉很快，飞快 他说话像连珠炮。 Example sentencesExamples - She reappeared just as quickly, talking a mile a minute.
- The admiral stared at the blank screen for a few more minutes, his mind whirling a mile a minute.
- Apparently, he pulled the ‘nicknames’ out of his head a mile a minute.
- From his home in Prince Edward Island, words spill out at a mile a minute as he describes his life as a fiddler and stepdancer.
- Thousands of emotions were rushing through my body a mile a minute.
- Right now, he's shooting his mouth off a mile a minute on his mobile.
- Within minutes, Scott had Ellie talking a mile a minute about everything she could think of.
- And we've got to wonder, if you're able to talk a mile a minute on the ground, how do you calculate the speed of speech at cruising altitude?
- Anna was breathing fast, and her heart was racing a mile a minute.
- He appears in many of the films just as he is in person - talking a mile a minute from behind thick glasses, his tongue working overtime to keep up with the rapid-fire messages from his brain.
Synonyms quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at speed, at full speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly
informal In a very isolated place. 〈非正式〉与世隔绝 Example sentencesExamples - There was one large house, and eight smaller ones, miles from anywhere else.
- Nobody thought York was a possibility, because it's miles from anywhere.
- When I worked for Bright Star they had their store in an old military bomb store miles from anywhere.
- Breezily, reassuringly, I said ‘Oh well, it's not like we're miles from anywhere.’
- They were miles from anywhere and mum couldn't get a signal on her mobile phone, so she had to walk quite a way to get help.
- A million miles from anywhere, it is America's most far-flung state but its isolated beauty is a huge attraction for adventures and honeymooners.
- You'll feel a million miles from anywhere, especially at night, yet you're only a 15-minute cab ride from town (and there's a free minibus).
- Hundreds and hundreds of miles from anywhere, the spot was the very ‘climax of desolation,’ as one of Stuart's fellow explorers once put it, and Stuart and his men had gone through hell to get there.
- The fortuitous setting of the Bilderberg Jan Luyken means that it overcomes the usual annoying paradox of hotels in major cities: the ones close to everything are too noisy, and the ones quiet enough to permit sleep are miles from anywhere.
- I couldn't go for a walk because the house was miles from anywhere and it was surrounded by plains.
informal Used with reference to a situation regarded as frightening or alarming. if someone proposed to me I'd probably run a mile 假如有人向我求婚，我可能会逃之夭夭的。 Example sentencesExamples - If an asylum seeker is told they have to seek the permission of the Minister or seek legal advice, they will probably run a mile.
- Football people - players, managers, chairmen - are so used to being asked soft questions that they would probably run a mile from a programme that demanded outright frankness from its guests.
- When I was at school I would have run a mile if I someone said a politician was going to give a lecture!
- I needed somebody to overpower, dominate and control me, which was what I knew and was comfortable with, and actually, if I had met a man who was supportive and gentle, I'd have probably run a mile.
- The fact that the police are running a mile from wanting to enforce this speaks volumes.
- For youngsters such as 15-year-old Princess Beatrice and her younger sister, Eugenie, the traditional Easter Day church service meant braving the cameras in the type of garb which would send the average teenager running a mile.
- Executives who would run a mile if approached on the Tube by one of these youths have decided they are the vessels through which the community is represented.
- If you ask them to help with some literacy they run a mile.
- If anyone says to me that those things are the big thing for autumn/winter, I run a mile.
- Politicians and education bureaucrats are running a mile after parents in Moray saw off their efforts to close umpteen rural schools.
see (or tell or spot) something a mile off informal Recognize something very easily. 〈非正式〉很容易辨认 the first-year campers can be spotted a mile off 坏蛋很容易辨认。 Example sentencesExamples - Viewers have become so adept at decoding adverts that your average post-modern couch potato can spot a marketing strategy a mile off.
- You can spot them a mile off - crew cuts, their best going-to-court suit and a black rubbish bag full of their stuff.
- It is occasionally a little corny dramatically and the plot twists can be seen a mile off but technically the film works.
- If you put grass cuttings in your bin they spot it a mile off.
- The ‘scary’ bits are so clichéd they can be seen a mile off.
- Thing is, there are still a lot that don't know how to carry this off successfully and you're going to be able to spot them a mile off.
- ‘We really were sure that we'd spot the secret shopper a mile off but we really, honestly didn't ’, she says.
- Book lovers can spot a heavyweight writer a mile off.
- You spot them a mile off and they were packing the boat this morning to town.
- I don't quite know what it is, but I can still spot it a mile off.
stand (or stick) out a mile informal Be very obvious or incongruous. 〈非正式〉显而易见，一目了然；格格不入 Example sentencesExamples - As it was, he was also wearing his travelling gear, painfully bright clothing that stood out a mile against his dark skin.
- Like, you know, when someone on a soap opera goes undercover, they wear a hat and yet they're the only one wearing a hat so they stick out a mile.
- For a team on a bit of roll like Aberdeen (three wins and a draw in their last four games) their odds stuck out a mile.
- His performance stands out a mile and there isn't enough of him.
- It stood out a mile against the milky-white skin.
- But the two nuns stood out a mile - both were dressed in their habits and both were tall, strong looking women.
- And any review must surely consider whether Salesbury Hall should host the show again - when the problems of getting large numbers of people to and from that location stand out a mile.
- It's worrying that mistakes that would stand out a mile to patients are being taken as gospel for all sorts of decisions made by healthcare staff, insurers and solicitors.
- I stood out a mile, a huge, rustling, fluorescent yellow blob on the green landscape of life.
- They stand out a mile, and their final act of defiance is appallingly preposterous and embarrassing.
Synonyms clear, plain, plain to see, crystal clear, evident, apparent, manifest, patent, conspicuous, pronounced, transparent, clear-cut, palpable, prominent, marked, decided, salient, striking, distinct, bold, noticeable, perceptible, perceivable, visible, discernible, detectable, observable, tangible, recognizable
OriginOld English mīl, based on Latin mil(l)ia, plural of mille ‘thousand’ (the original Roman unit of distance was mille passus ‘a thousand paces’). |