in a straight line
by the shortest route
directly or straight
nonstop or uninterrupted
without stopping
The nearest hotel is about 24 kilometers away as the crow flies.
There is a beautiful hill station about 20 miles away as the crow flies, right from where we are standing now.
It’s only three miles to Square Tower as the crow flies, but it’s all of ten miles if the Glasgow Hamilton Road is closed and one has to drive round the Johnston Road.
Just go on this route as the crow flies, and you may save about 40 minutes.
I am driving for 4 hours on this trail as the crow flies and we reached nowhere yet – I think we are lost.
It was remarkable bike ride as the crow flies on Alaska-Canadian Highway.
There is no origin for this idiom
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