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| a close shave; a close call; as near as a toucher; by a close shave; within a hair of; within an ace of; within an inch of (Anglophile); in for it; within a hair's breadth | |||
| within a hairbreadth of | |||
| close call | |||
| within an ace of something (Alexander Demidov) | |||
| next door to | |||
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| within an ace of; within a hair's breadth (He found he could think incisively in that position... so that now the chair was poised at the outer limits of balance, with only a hairsbreadth between equilibrium and disaster. (A. Hailey)) | |||
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| on the brink of (teetering on the brink of bankruptcy SirReal); by a hair's breadth of; within a hair's breadth of; within the turn of a die | |||
| on the verge of | |||
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| within a hairbreadth of | |||
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на волосок от : 92 phrases in 11 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 2 |
| Chess | 2 |
| Criminal law | 1 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 29 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Literature | 1 |
| Makarov | 46 |
| Mass media | 1 |
| Slang | 3 |