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Far cry?

And if you shout something out loud to someone from the distance, especially over sloping hills, what you say is likely to be distorted. You may say Michael, and the hearer may think you’re addressing Marlowe instead.

And Marlowe IS literally a far cry from Michael, isn’t it?

Anyways, that’s the meaning of far cry originally. Figuratively speaking, whenever we say nowadays something is a far cry from something else, we mean to say they’re very different, or distant, meaning the distance or separation between the two is great.

All clear?

All right. No more ado and let’s read a few real examples of this popular idiom:

1. What is it about Edinburgh right now? It seems to be a real hotbed of crime fiction talent and Tony Black is no exception. Another very fine author indeed and this, his second book, is simply superb. Black’s clever use of short, sharp sentences and tight punctuation makes the gritty, hard-core existence of Gus Drury, his main character, all the more real.

Set in Easter Road, Sighthill and other ‘non-pretty’ areas of Edinburgh, GUTTED is a captivating novel that exposes the city for what it really is: a far cry from its snobby, public school respectability and Greyfriar’s Bobby cuteness that are much loved by its tourists but really fool no-one.

GUTTED is the second novel in the Gus Drury series. To summarise, Gus finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when he goes up Corstorphine Hill to catch troublemakers involved in dog fights. Almost before he knows what has hit him, he is falling down the hill - and ends up landing on a corpse. The corpse is fresh and bloody and Gus, who calls the police pretty quickly, ends up both covered in blood and in the frame for murder.