Idiom
hair's breadth
Meaning
A very small amount or distance.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He missed the bus by a hair's breadth.”
“The car swerved to avoid the dog, missing it by a hair's breadth.”
“The climber escaped the falling rock by a hair's breadth, clinging to the cliff face as the debris tumbled into the abyss below.”
Examples
simple
“He missed the bus by a hair's breadth.”
contextual
“The car swerved to avoid the dog, missing it by a hair's breadth.”
complex
“The climber escaped the falling rock by a hair's breadth, clinging to the cliff face as the debris tumbled into the abyss below.”
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