come within a whisker of (doing) sth
If you come within a whisker of doing something, you almost do it or it almost happens to you:
Twice now she had come within a whisker of death.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Almost
- about
- almost
- as good as idiom
- as much as idiom
- be on the way to sth idiom
- more
- more or less idiom
- much
- near
- near
- nearly
- next
- strike
- sub
- that was close! idiom
- the best/better part of idiom
- to/for all intents and purposes idiom
- up to
- virtual
- way
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