Miles away from the place? Anything but! (3,4,2)
I believe the answer is:
far from it
'place? anything but' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'miles away from the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'miles' could be 'far' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'far' is found in the answer.
'away' could be 'fro' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'fro' is found within the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mi' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for far from it that I've seen before include "Ma for rift? Most unlikely, too remote" , "Affirm rot? No way, quite remote" , "By no means" , "On the contrary" , "Well short of objective" .)