"Howdy and a half" nghĩa là gì?

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"Howdy and a half" nghĩa là rất gần (khoảng cách). 

Ví dụ
Finally, I called him on a gas station's phone, and told him that I was howdy and a half to him, but couldn't find him.

Hiawatha noticed Charlotte's furrowed eyebrows (nhíu lông mày). “Don't tell me you don't remember Preston Chambers from down the road. He used to live only a howdy and a half, as Mama would say, from Ramiyah.” 

This canal (con kênh) commences (bắt đầu) in the Mersey river (9 miles above Liverpool) at Ellesmere-port in Netherpool, and terminates in the Severn river at Bagley bridge, howdy and a half to the termination (cuối) of the Shrewsbury canal.  

The Landau family lived in a comfortable home in a large building with many tenants (người thuê), where his father was a part owner of the building: 'We had a very comfortable apartment in that building and that's howdy and a half where [my sister's] wedding took place'. 

Thu Phương

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