Idiom
Back-of-the-envelope calculation.
A back of the envelope calculation is a figure that was arrived at quickly or by using estimation--as if someone had grabbed the first scrap of paper they found and made a quick guess.
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John rose and walked up the aisle to the bathroom at the back of the chapel.
At the back of the chapel, up a short flight of stairs, there are two niches, arched alcoves the same shape and size as the stained-glass windows.
He and a group of nine or ten people had been clustered in a passage at the back of the chapel when, suddenly, he says, everything turned black.
Throughout the wake, Mr. Rollino's friends, relatives and neighbors stood at the back of the chapel and in the lobby beyond it, struggling to define the life of a Coney Island strongman, longshoreman, $5-a-fight boxer, World War II veteran, Atlantic ice-water swimmer, weightlifter, churchgoer and neighborhood physical-fitness trainer.
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Tagg also retreated to the back of the chapel at one point to gently bounce one of his sleeping newborns.
At the back of the chapel is a churrigueresque painting of Our Lady of the Agonies of Granada.
After an archeological survey, the box were shifted to the Lorenese Chapel, on the back of the Medici Chapel, where a temporary laboratory was organized to perform the anthropological and paleopathological examination.
Not long ago, Father McNamara surprised his congregants by commissioning a special mosaic in a small chapel at the back of the church.
"We have a camera at the back of our chapel, which we turn on," he says.
Sometimes this can happen in the back of the church, or in a chapel at the hospital, or retirement home or wherever the person lived.
The chapel stood at the center of the back of the square, facing the gate across the plaza.
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