by a whisker
English
Prepositional phrase
- By a very small distance.
- I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.
- 2023 May 27, Stephen Burgen, “‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
- Her communitarian platform Barcelona en Comú won by a whisker, and there was an initial period of transition from Colau the activist who fought the police to Colau the mayor who was responsible for them.
Synonyms
- by a nose, by a nose length
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