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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

sounds like your English teacher taught you wrong, as a joke.

a couple of blocks means two or three blocks, and more likely two.

if I was looking for something "a couple of blocks away" and still hadn't seen it by the fourth, I'd assume the directions were wrong or I'd got lost.

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