variations on overview: from fifty thousand feet?
To follow-up on an excellent related question, what are the varying distinctions between:
From x feet
x foot view
where x is commonly and variously between ten and fifty thousand.
Solution 1:
The X is not meant to be relative. When someone says 'take a thirty thousand foot view' they're not trying to suggest some varying degree of high level abstraction. The audience has no agreed upon notion of what constitutes a 'twenty-nine thousand foot view'. The person saying 'thirty thousand foot view' is just saying it's at a high level that leaves out many details.