breadth » breath
Chiefly in:
a hair's breath
Classification: English – idiom-related
Spotted in the wild:
- He had won by a hair’s breath - somehow, some way - with a hidden reserve that he hadn’t known was in him. (link)
- Even in this age of fast food and automation, our body’s natural balancing mechanism brings us within a hair’s breath of weight equilibrium. (link)
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