(UK, figurative) Not paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
That doesn't even sound loud? I have trucks on my street, I'm a half mile away from a train station, a few miles away from the airport, all of those things are way louder than this video
What I don't get, and hear me out here, is why hummingbird hawkmoths bother. You can see what most mimics are driving at - and they're usually mimicing something present and useful in their environment. So why mimic p…
(UK, figurative) Not paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
“That doesn't even sound loud? I have trucks on my street, I'm a half mile away from a train station, a few miles away from the airport, all of those things are way louder than this video”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
Far, remote in space or time.
(British) A business event, such as a team-building exercise, training course or internal meeting, that takes place away from the office without the usual distractions.
Away from the inside or centre.
Id fly u to Madrid but land at an airport 268 miles away... and claim its Madrid and shuttle bus u there
“What I don't get, and hear me out here, is why hummingbird hawkmoths bother. You can see what most mimics are driving at - and they're usually mimicing something present and useful in their environment. So why mimic perfectly a bird thousands of miles away?”
“Id fly u to Madrid but land at an airport 268 miles away... and claim its Madrid and shuttle bus u there”
“It's the same everywhere. I couldn't get jobs in supermarkets and restaurants when I left school because I didn't have experience and that's all employers wanted. I had to wait for someone to take a chance on me. That person was 70 miles away from where I lived...”
“sometimes the helicopter crew has to land miles away then take a regular ambulance with the patient the rest of the way sometimes the hospital turns down patients because of the hassle of coordinating landings and care sometimes patients go by ground taking more time”
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(UK) Any of a number of roads near Oxford, England, whose upkeep was formerly paid for by nearby residents.