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Not a native English speaker, but I often heard it in a context where it meant "by quite some margin". Not saying they weren't all wrong though.
by raxxorraxor 3y ago
Not a native English speaker, but I often heard it in a context where it meant "by quite some margin". Not saying they weren't all wrong though.
- jjgreen 3y agoIn the UK, "a long shot" is something unlikely to succeed, and the artillery metaphor is understood, but I've never heard "by a long shot", where the "long shot" is the margin/distance by which the target is missed. Language eh?