Idiom of the Day
sit back
to be located a distance away from a street
The large mansion sits back three hundred meters from the street.
Fact
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
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