hair's-breadth meaning

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hair's-breadth (noun): a very small distance or space.

Definition of hair's-breadth

  1. a very small distance or space
    • they escaped by a hair's-breadth
    • they lost the election by a whisker

    Synonyms: hairsbreadth, hair, whisker

    Type of: small indefinite quantity

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