Meaning of hair's breadth | Babel Free

Definitions

A very small amount or distance.

idiomatic

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Examples

“hair's-breadth escapes [narrow escapes]”

“We won by a hair's breadth.”

“He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday.”

“They came within a hair's breadth of contacting electrified water.”

“Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and, from forehead to chin, you won't find a hair's breadth of difference between them.”

“"And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him."”

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