breadth
71hair's breadth — hair’s breadth UK US noun [singular] the smallest possible distance, amount, or degree The car only missed us by a hair’s breadth. We were a hair’s breadth away from winning a fortune. Thesaurus: specific types of distancehyponym small numbers… …
72hairs|breadth — hair s breadth or hairs|breadth «HAIRZ BREHDTH, BREHTTH», adjective, noun. –adj. = hairbreadth. (Cf. ↑hairbreadth) –n. a very small space or distance: »Our team was within a hair s breadth of winning …
73hand|breadth — «HAND BREHDTH, BREHTTH», noun. the breadth of a hand, used as a measure. It varies from 2½ to 4 inches. Also, hand s breadth …
74market breadth — UK US noun [U] STOCK MARKET ► a method of finding out the direction in which prices on a financial market will move, based on the relationship between the number of companies whose share prices are rising and the companies whose share prices are… …
75hair's breadth — n [singular] a very small amount or distance ▪ The bullet missed me by a hair s breadth …
76by 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… …
77(a) hair's breadth — a very small distance or amount. Enemy forces are within a hair s breadth of the city. We were a hair s breadth away from getting caught. (= we were almost caught) …
78hair's breadth — UK / US noun [singular] the smallest possible distance, amount, or degree The car only missed us by a hair s breadth. We were a hair s breadth away from winning a fortune …
79By 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… …
80hair's-breadth — /ˈhɛəz brɛdθ / (say hairz bredth), / brɛtθ/ (say bretth) noun 1. a very small space or distance: *he had failed by a hair s breadth for a Rhodes scholarship –george johnston, 1964. –adjective 2. extremely narrow or close. –phrase 3. within a hair …
