Meaning of FEW AND FAR BETWEEN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

In English if you're talking about things and you refer to them as being few and far

between it means that there aren't very many of them.

Maybe in your city good restaurants are few and far between.

That would mean that your city doesn't have a lot of good restaurants.

Maybe in your city restaurants that make good food and charge a reasonable amount of money

are few and far between.

Again, that would mean that there aren't very many of them.

Some people say that honest people are few and far between in this world and I hope that

that's not true.

I hope that there are a lot of honest people in this world and I hope that dishonest people

are actually few and far between.

So, again, if you are referring to things that are few and far between it means that

there aren't very many of them.

There's a few other words that you can use to talk about this.

You can say that things are scarce.

So you could say that restaurants that make good food are scarce in my city, or you could

say that they are rare, that would also mean that there are not very many of them.

Or you could say that restaurants that make good food and charge a reasonable amount of

money are uncommon in my city.

So all of these words, scarce, rare, and uncommon mean the same thing as few and far between.

I hope that honest people in your country aren't uncommon.

I hope that they aren't rare.

I hope that there are lots of them and I hope that you are one of them.