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The polite way to admit you have no idea where something actually is.
means The general area or surrounding region near a particular place.
from From Latin vicinitas, meaning 'neighborhood,' rooted in vicinus 'neighbor,' which traces back to vicus, a 'row of houses' or small village cluster. So the word's bones are literally about living near someone — it just lost the specific neighbor along the way and kept the vague sense of nearness.
- legal use
- courts accept it as deliberately vague distance
- etymology
- from latin vicinus, meaning neighbor
- real trick
- sounds precise while committing to nothing