cough and a spit

English

Noun

a cough and a spit

  1. (film, theater) A minor role.
    • 1992, Film Review (page 6)
      Ray Wise managed his back-to-black-hair role before joining Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts and James Marshall squeezed in his cough and a spit between Gladiator and joining the big boys (Nicholson, Cruise) in A Few Good Men […]
    • 1998, Ken Whitmore, ‎Alfred Bradley, The Final Twist: A Play (page 20)
      Everybody gargling madly and mugging up their lines as though Shakespeare himself was out front. Don't know why I bothered, I only had a cough and a spit.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) A very short distance.
    • 2009, David Fiddimore, The Forgotten War (page 5)
      […] a Lancaster squadron at Bawne, west of Cambridge — it sits a cough and a spit from the Bedfordshire border.
    • 2013, Russell Cruse, The Rothko Room (page 258)
      […] Stockwell, a cough and a spit from Vauxhall Cross.
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