what does hair’s-breadth mean?
HAIR’S-BREADTH as NOUN
- Meaning
- a very small distance or space
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- they escaped by a hair’’s-breadth
- they lost the election by a whisker
Hypernyms(s) hair’s-breadth is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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