arm's reach
Close enough to touch
Arm's reach is the distance a person can extend their arm to touch or grasp something: Keep your phone within arm's reach.
The phrase usually appears with "within" to indicate accessibility or "out of" to indicate something just beyond grasp.
Figuratively, it suggests proximity or attainability: Success felt within arm's reach.
- radiusCenter-to-perimeter distance
- graspSeize or understand
- holdMaintain in grasp
- close at handWithin immediate reach
- immediacyQuality of being direct
extension · convenience · easy access · hand · availability · vicinity · fingertip · closeness · attainability · grabbable · touch · span · approachability · nearness · boundary · reachability · adjacency · stretch
- proximitynear, close, nearby, nearness, proximity
- close rangepoint-blank, close quarters, short-range, striking distance, short distance
- distance phrasesstone's throw, far away, nearby, close by, long way
physical proximity
arm's reachout of reach
Beyond one's grasp
beyond reach · far away · out of range · unreachable · miles away
arm, arms, armed, arming, armful, armless, forearm, underarm, reach