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Sat 3 Apr, 2004 03:51 am
What is your first reaction as your eye touches the "close" in the headline below:
So Close, Jurors See Long Effort End in Nothing
My first reaction is that the close here meant "being near in space or time".
Yes, I presume they were close to a verdict or decision, but didn't actually make it. As we might say, 'so near and yet so far' or even in other contexts 'a miss is as good as a mile' - meaning if you haven't hit your target, it doesn't matter how near you were to it, you have still missed it.
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