Timeline for Is there a widely-accepted opposite of "as the crow flies"?
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| Jul 24, 2017 at 2:10 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | The short story, "As the Crow Flies: And how Mary Forgot the Application" was published in 1853. This answer would at best be a cutesy and convenient bolt-on phrase, but not one of any dogmatic or etymological significance. It would however make sense. Source: tinyurl.com/ya9myvmw | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | Scimonster | I made this up also as i clicked on the link. It may not be common, but it's certainly easy to understand. +1 | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 16:05 | comment | added | mccainz | Granted it is not a perfect answer, but it balances its opposite quite nicely and the phrasing itself is very common in English usage, if not idiomatic. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 16:00 | comment | added | tparker | This would be what I'm looking for, but note that in the first three pages of Google book search results, only one entry ("About 25km (16 miles) south-west of Puebla (as the crow flies, not as the road winds) is El Berrueco, with a 13th-century church and the huge El Atazar reservoir") actually refers to distance. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:33 | comment | added | Aliden | I feel like this, along with the OP's phrase and my answer, form a nice spectrum: 'as the crow flies' - straight line distance; 'as the wolf runs' - shortest overland distance; 'as the road winds' - shortest well-traveled distance | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 13:36 | history | edited | mccainz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2017 at 13:28 | comment | added | thomj1332 | Granted, but the OP did specifically ask for a widely-accepted term. You just made this up. +1 for creativity though. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 13:11 | comment | added | mccainz | I would question the downvote as none of the other answers are idiomatic either, and most don't even supply phrase form solutions. I simply point this out. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 13:01 | history | answered | mccainz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |