Brewer's: Hundred Miles

(A). Not a hundred miles off. An indirect way of saying in this very neighbourhood, or very spot. The phrase is employed when it would be indiscreet or dangerous to refer more directly to the person or place hinted at, as, “Not a hundred miles off, there is ...”

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