come close to
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I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.