a miss is as good as a mile

I know a miss is as good as a mile, but it shows we're getting close."

"A miss is as good as a mile," I commented.

I feel that it's only round the comer; but a miss is as good as a mile.

The rest of the phrase reminded him of, "A miss is as good as a mile."

Thus, "a miss is as good as a mile," does not apply to a keyhole of several hundred meter width.

He missed out 'keep off the grass' and 'a miss is as good as a mile'.

How do you Americans say, 'A miss is as good as a mile?' "

"A miss is as good as a mile" (failure by a narrow margin is no better than any other failure)

At least, we have an old saying on Baleyworld that goes, 'A miss is as good as a mile.'

The kids immediately jump in; rock hopping is a game in which a miss is as good as a mile and being all wet is a virtue.

The last thing I say I shall say to Mr Alvaro, and it is this: a miss is as good as a mile!

"A miss is as good as a mile," said David M. Cohen, a lawyer for the Merrick Union Free School District on Long Island.

"Same thing happened to me once," Kellaway said, "only it was the helmet that suffered ... Still, a miss is as good as a mile, isn't it?"

As a general rule they are not true; unless indeed they happen to be mere platitudes, as for instance the proverb, "Half a loaf is better than no bread," or "A miss is as good as a mile."

Then the trajectory was recalculated, and it was discovered that, where XF11 was concerned, a miss is as good as a mile, as good as 600,000 miles, in fact, which is as near as it will come to Earth.