Usage of "hair's breadth"

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A very small distance or space.

Uso de hair's breadth em inglês

I escaped becoming an infantryman before my time by a hair's breadth. 
 The forgotten soldier 

They will have their work to bend him by a hair's breadth. 
 Come Rack! Come Rope! 

Some one had stolen his vengeance from him by a hair's breadth. 
 A Man Four-Square 

The old man's gaze, roving a hair's breadth, saw the yawning drawers. 
 The Grey Cloak 

A large man, physically powerful, though a hair's breadth from a moron. 
 The President's Assassin 

The British Museum itself was saved only by a hair's breadth. 
 Heartbreak House 

Last night I was only a hair's breadth away from it. 
 Hadda Pada 

It lifted a hair's breadth, and I heard a slight scraping sound below. 
 The Blood Ship 

I dare not deviate one hair's breadth from my appointed course. 
 After Long Years and Other Stories 

Nor did he fail of his purpose by more than a hair's breadth. 
 Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t... 

They escaped only by a hair's breadth from being flattened out like pastry. 
 Where the Blue Begins 

He was powerless to increase her happiness by a hair's breadth. 
 Maurice Guest 

Danny boy, you have just gotten by the Board by a hair's breadth. 
 Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N... 

His views dovetail in to a hair's breadth with K.'s views. 
 Gallipoli Diary,  Volume 1 

This is only one game lost, and by a hair's breadth. 
 The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics 

If you change your treatment of him a hair's breadth, he will suspect. 
 A Girl of the Limberlost 

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Significados de hair's breadth em inglês