🐦 Crow
"As the crow flies"
Meaning
In a straight line from one place to another.
About the crow
Crows fly in straight, direct lines and are linked to omens and age, which shows up in idioms about directness and getting older.
Example sentence
The village is only five kilometers away as the crow flies, but the road takes much longer.
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Which idiom means...
In a straight line from one place to another.