DT Идиома
by a hair’s breadth
Idiom(s): by a hair(’s breadth) AND by a whiskerTheme: AMOUNT - SMALL
just barely; by a very small distance. (The whisker phrase is folksy.)
• I just missed getting on the plane by a hair's breadth.
• I made it by a hair!
• The arrow missed the deer by a whisker.
By a hair's breadth
If a person escapes from some danger by a hair's breadth, they only just managed to avoid it. The breadth is the thickness of a hair, so they probably feel somewhat lucky because the margin between success and what could easily have been failure was so close.Tears before bedtime
(UK) This idiom is used when something seems certain to go wrong or cause trouble.one damn thing after another|ODTAA|damn thing|one
(pronounced owed-tay) n. phr. If there is one problem, there will be more. First I lost my wallet, then a kid broke the window, and, lastly, my car refused to start. It was just one damn thing after another!Compare: IF IT'S NOT ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER.
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on trial on-again, off-again once and for all once in a blue moon once in a while once upon a time once-over one and the same one damn thing after another one eye on one foot in the grave one for the books one man's meat is another man's poison one of these days one on the city one up one's money's worth
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