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| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: That far. The expressions this far and that far, although they are very common, are, nevertheless, incorrect. Thus far or so far should be used instead. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Crosswords: THAT FAR |
| English words defined with "THAT FAR": frighteningly ♦ scarily. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THAT FAR": Romance. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I can't blow that far. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) I never make plans that far ahead. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) Hmm, I can't plan that far ahead. (Beyond Rangoon; writing credit: Alex Lasker; Bill Rubenstein) I wouldn't go that far. (Love in the Afternoon; writing credit: Claude Anet; I.A.L. Diamond) Crocodiles can't swim that far. (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley) | |
Lyrics | Hate us because you'll never get that far. (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) I'll follow you down, but not that far (FOLLOW YOU DOWN; performing artist: Gin Blossoms) Wond'ring if we're really ever gonna get that far (Valotte; performing artist: Julian Lennon) Never got the chance to go that far (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Walter, if you can make a dollar go that far, I may recommend you to aid Secretary Morgenthau!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Soren Kierkegaard | Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Australia | In April a report into the sterilization of disabled girls and young women, commissioned by the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, found that the official data is unreliable and anecdotal evidence suggests that girls continue to be sterilized in numbers that far exceed those that have been lawfully authorized. (references) |
Economic History | Vietnam | Investment in commercial feed mills has resulted in milling capacity that far outstrips local production of corn and soybeans. (references) |
Argentina | The commercial aviation industry is experiencing a horizontal integration because of above factors and the fact that there were five airlines serving the domestic market, an amount that far exceeds demand. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Paul Harvey | Sure, I still pound every word into an IBM Selectric. I did get that far. I used a manual typewriter until a just a few years ago. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
no place that far | 16 |
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| Language | Translations for "THAT FAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kun ehdin siihen asti (when I get that far). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | そうでない 合は (about, careless, go that far, hurriedly, if this is not the case, in a hurry, no more than, only, or so, thoughtless, to that extent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そ"まで (go that far, to that extent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atthay arfay atât de departe. (various references) dotle (insomuch, so far). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-h-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: arhat, attar, tatar. | |
-3 letters: afar, fart, frat, haaf, haar, haft, hart, raft, rath, tahr, tart, that. | |
-4 letters: aah, aft, aha, arf, art, att, far, fat, hat, rah, rat, tar, tat. | |
-5 letters: aa, ah, ar, at, fa, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-h-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: haftarot. | |
+2 letters: aftermath, haftaroth. | |
+3 letters: aftermaths. | |
+5 letters: fainthearted. | |
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