so near and yet so far

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something that you say which means that you have almost achieved something but that what you still have to do in order to achieve it is very difficult or impossible I've only got the last chapter to write but it's taking forever. So near, yet so agonisingly far.

See be close to the bone, close at hand, be close to the mark

See also: and, far, near, yet

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There is no doubt this is a significant move and victory for our campaign launched in January is so near and yet so far. So near to victory; comment by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) So near and yet so far after everything had gone wrong Bold Arrangement's trip for the Kentucky Derby was horrendous. The $100 'bribe' that secured a Breeders' Cup crown; Clive Brittain ... by The Racing Post (London, England) The door to the museum was locked - so near and yet so far. It's key to plan head - in chess and in life by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)			snug as a bug in a rug snug down snuggle snuggle against snuggle down snuggle up so bad one can taste it so clean you could eat off the floor so cold you could hang meat so far so far as is concerned So far so good so far, so good so gross so help me so it goes so long so mad I could scream so many countries, so many customs so much so much as so much for So much for that so much so so much the better so near and yet so far so soon so still you could hear a pin drop so to speak so's your old man so, sue me soak soak face soak in soak off soak out of soak through soak to the skin soak up soak with soaked to the skin soap soap down sob sob oneself to sleep sob out sob story sob to sober sober as a judge sober up			So Many Roads So Many Times So Many Unique Treasures So mote it be So mote it be so much so much so much so much so much as so much as so much for So Much for Resolution So Much For That So Much For That So Much for the Afterglow So Much Fun So Much Hate So Much It Hurts So Much Love So Much Of Paragraph NN so much so so much the better so much the better so much the better so much the worse so much the worse so much the worse for So Much To Do, So Little Time So Much to Say so near and yet so far So Not A Bug So Not Fair So Not Funny So Not Ok! So Not True So Nyuh Shi Dae So Others Might Eat So Out of Luck So Over Him/Her so quiet you could hear a pin drop So Sick with It So So Def so soon So Sorry So Sorry in Advance so still you could hear a pin drop So Sue Me Already So Sweet So Sweet the Hour so that so that so that So That's It? So the Freak What so the saying goes so the saying goes so the saying goes so the saying is so the saying is so the saying is

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