A: You’d better have your gas tank refilled before setting off. B: I can get gasoline at service stations along the way. A: Not really. Service stations on this highway are few and far between. Note: The idiom originated in the mid-1600s and initially was used literally for physical objects that appeared at widely separated intervals. Today it is also used more loosely to mean “scarce, rare.” For example: She had her lucid moments, yes, but they were few and far between. |