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Definition

To a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.

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Origins

A reference to the very small diameter of a strand of hair: compare hair's breadth.

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In Context

  • "Pand[arus]. Youle remember your brothers excuſe? / Par[is]. To a hayre."
  • "As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face."
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Also Said As

  • to the turn of a hair
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