| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Far fetched | Literature | 1: Not closely connected; a remote conceit; as, "a far-fetched simile," a "far-fetched allusion." Also, obtained from a foreign or distant country, "quod rarum est, carum est." 2: "The passionfor long, involved sentences... and far-fetched conceits... passed away, and a clearer and less ornate style became popular." - Lecky: English in the Eighteenth Century, vol. i. chap. i. p. 91. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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