Idiom
fine line
Meaning
A difference, albeit vague and difficult to discern.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“There is a fine line between being funny and being rude.”
“As a manager, you must walk a fine line between being supportive and being too strict with your team.”
“The author explores the fine line between genius and madness, suggesting that the two states of mind are often closer than we care to admit.”
Examples
simple
“There is a fine line between being funny and being rude.”
contextual
“As a manager, you must walk a fine line between being supportive and being too strict with your team.”
complex
“The author explores the fine line between genius and madness, suggesting that the two states of mind are often closer than we care to admit.”
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