в нескольких шагах

• В ДВУХ <B ТРЕХ, В НЕСКОЛЬКИХ> ШАГАХ (от кого-чего) coll

[PrepP; these forms only; adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: concr); fixed WO]

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⇒ very close (to s.o. or sth.), very near:

- within a stoned throw of;

- a stoned throw away <away from, from>;

- two <a few> steps away <away from, from>;

- within a few steps;

- no distance at all;

- right <just> near here <there etc>;

- right <just> around the corner.

     ♦ Я... даже в Историческом музее, в двух шагах от Кремля работал... (Солженицын 2). I was able...even to work in the Historical Museum, a stone's throw from the Kremlin (2a).

     ♦ "Там Безбородкин сад... Нева в двух шагах, свой огород - ни пыли, ни духоты!" (Гончаров 1). 'There you would have the Bezborodkin Park; you'd be...two steps from the Neva, have your own kitchen garden-and no dust, none of that oppressive heat!" (1b).

     ♦ "Знаете ли что? Пойдёмте теперь к ней все вместе. Она живёт отсюда в двух шагах" (Тургенев 2). "Do you know what? Let's all go to call on her now, together. She lives just near here" (2e).