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 can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'miles away from the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'miles' could be 'far' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'far' is present in the answer.
'away' could be 'fro' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'fro' is found in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mi' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
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" .)