Definition
A very small amount or distance.
In Context
- "hair's-breadth escapes [narrow escapes]"
- "We won by a hair's breadth."
- "He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday."
- "They came within a hair's breadth of contacting electrified water."
- "Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and, from forehead to chin, you won't find a hair's breadth of difference between them."
- ""And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him.""