@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 10 hours ago"Over yonder as the crow the flies" is a ridiculous statement that makes sense to a lot of peoplemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down118
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-square"Over yonder as the crow the flies" is a ridiculous statement that makes sense to a lot of people@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 10 hours agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-square@thedirtyknapkinlink1•3 hours agohuh, I’ve only ever heard it not attached to “over yonder”. for me it’s just a modifier to distance and direction to indicate you don’t account for terrain. “it’s about 5 miles south as the crow flies, but that river might give you hell”
huh, I’ve only ever heard it not attached to “over yonder”. for me it’s just a modifier to distance and direction to indicate you don’t account for terrain. “it’s about 5 miles south as the crow flies, but that river might give you hell”