Meaning of fine line | Babel Free

Definitions

A difference, albeit vague and difficult to discern.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”

“"We're not arrogant, we're confident about what we're doing," says Hill, "But there's a fine line between them, isn't there?"”

“San Francisco songsters The Richter Scales give the world their take on the subprime meltdown in a song that advises there's also a fine line "between the theories and the facts", "between what's solid and what cracks" and "between a gain and a crippling, crushing, mortally wounding decline".”

“Harvesting Easter eggs is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.”

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