fur piece

fur piece

A long distance. You'd better take a jacket—it's a fur piece to the store and not exactly warm out.
See also: fur, piece
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fur piece

Rur. a long distance. (Fur = far.) It's a fur piece to the library. You'd best take the bus instead of walking. It's a pretty fur piece to the nearest big town.
See also: fur, piece
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (all) of a piece
  • all of a piece
  • all of a piece with (something)
  • all of a piece with something
  • of a piece
  • fur and feather
  • say (one's) piece
  • say piece
  • say your piece
  • take a piece out of (one)
References in periodicals archive
Going what we jokingly called "a fur piece" started when the son-in-law of some friends began to attend Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
The welts in this wrap give the luxurious silhouette of a vintage fur piece. A bow brings the wrap together with feminine flair.
Look to Stella McCartney, our environmentally conscious champion for a pioneering faux fur piece. Shrimps, a London-based brand, is another must-have designer that only works with faux fur.
"It has to be a coat, like a big, colorful fur piece, or a big chunky scarf that you can wrap around your neck?' His fall look-book is overflowing with clustered tulle, melted mohair and collaged tinsel.
The rounded end is used as the "face" of the fur piece.
Their point being that by wearing this recycled version you have prevented the need for a brand new fur piece to be produced.
A red-fox fur piece, which matched Grandma Anna's waist-length red hair, lurked nearby with beady eyes and a sharp, hard snout.
To when $250 a week seemed an incredible fortune, and you could buy your mom a fur piece with the money from your first show.
23 This was a lynx fur piece, much prized as an accessory.
Alaska's agricultural economy, meanwhile, has also "come a fur piece" since establishing the experimental stations.
She was far from the laughing, swaggering girl he had married, the girl who sneaked out of her dorm room after hours, who bopped and smoked and could throw a fur piece around her shoulders with the high-handed flair of a Broadway actress.
Most of their fur pieces are for the catwalk spectacle.
Some of products that will be sold in the U.A.E include Gianfranco Lotti's range of women's and men's bags, a selection of small leather goods, as well as ties for men and a newly introduced line of women's outerwear leather and fur pieces.
Keep your fur pieces cut sharp and tailored to avoid the frou-frou look
A lot of the Saudi women are flocking to the faux leather and fur pieces from the winter collections." Since I was interested in 'dresses only' she pointed me to a faux black leather dress for BD39.900 that is receiving a lot of attention.