a hair's breadth
a very small distance or amount:
His finger was within a hair's breadth of touching the alarm.
She came within a hair's breadth of losing her life (= she nearly died).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Closeness in distance and time
- a few/couple of steps idiom
- a stone's throw idiom
- ace
- anywhere
- anywhere near idiom
- approachable
- face-to-face
- float around
- hand to hand idiom
- hard by
- here
- proximity
- roof
- round the corner idiom
- shadow
- shout
- step
- stick together
- towards
- under the same roof idiom
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