Hair's-breadth (Noun)
Meaning
A very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker".
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The two skydivers narrowly avoided collision with each other by a hair's-breadth, their parachutes almost touching in mid-air.
- A hair's-breadth separated the two competitors in the 100-meter dash, with the winner taking the gold medal by a fraction of a second.
- The speeding car missed the pedestrian by a hair's-breadth, sending the onlookers' hearts racing in shock.
- Her opponent's golf ball stopped a hair's-breadth short of the hole, allowing her to sink the winning putt.
- By a hair's-breadth, the divers escaped the underwater cave before it totally collapsed behind them, making their rescue possible.