The speeding car missed the child, who ran out into the road, by only a hairsbreadth.
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Hairsbreadth
//ˈhɛəɹzbɹɛdθ//
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[...] I ſee you are obſequious in your loue, and I profeſſe requitall to a haires bredth, [...]
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[I]t was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hair's-breadth [...]
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We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.
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