hair's breadth

hair's breadth

See also: hairsbreadth

English

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Noun

hair's breadth (plural hairs' breadths)

1. A very small amount or distance.

   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.

Translations

very small amount or distance

Finnish: karvan verran; hitunen (fi)

See also

• Hair's breadth Wikipedia English

Anagrams

• hairbreadths