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Definition hair’s breadth in British English

hair’s breadth noun

[singular] noun
1

the smallest possible distance, amount, or degree

Example

The car only missed us by a hair's breadth.

Example

We were a hair's breadth away from winning a fortune.

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Definition hair’s breadth in British English