دیکشنری آنلاین تحلیلگران ( معنی فارسی close , but no cigar )

close, but no cigar

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English Dictionary

close, but no cigar
used when something someone does or says is almost correct or successful

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Idioms

close, but no cigar ^[1]
close, but no cigar. ^[2]

close, but no cigar
almost but not exactly what you had hoped for or wanted.

Vince never got that big win he wanted — it was always close but no cigar.

Etymology: from games of skill or chance in which the person who won would get a cigar as a prize

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Close, but no cigar.
[American & Australian, humorous]
something that you say to someone if what they tell you or what they do is nearly correct but not completely.

'Is his name Howard?' 'Close, but no cigar. It's Harold.'

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