If I have two wolves in me, do I travel twice as fast as the wolf runs? Or perhaps I never tire because they take shifts? Can’t get lost because the second one handles navigation?

It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence in my neck of the woods lol.

Over in that way, in a direct route without taking into consideration terrain.

I guess cuz it sounds enough like the much more common saying “as the crow flies”.

I have also never heard it used to describe direction, only distance.