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hair's-breadth

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hairs·breadth or hair's-breadth  (hârzbrdth) also hair·breadth (hâr-)
n.
A small space, distance, or margin: won by a hairsbreadth.
hair's-breadth
Noun
an extremely small margin or distance
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Noun1.hair's-breadth - a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"
hairsbreadth, whisker, hair
small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
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She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty.
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But he only grew very red, and then--no, I am not departing by a hair's-breadth from the truth--it is true-- that he took this unworthy hand in his, and shook it
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Genevieve had noticed, with a slight touch of amusement, the curious way in which Joe snuggled his body in against Ponta's in the clinches; but she had not realized why, until, in one such clinch, before the snuggling in could be effected, Ponta's fist whipped straight up in the air from under, and missed Joe's chin by a hair's-breadth.
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