by a hair's breadth
только-только, еле-еле, с трудом
Jim got to the station by a hair's breadth to see the train ready to depart.
Другие идиомы:
- keep (someone) out of one's hair
- make (someone's) hair stand on end
- get (someone) out of one's hair
- split hairs
- neither hide nor hair (of someone or something)
- out of one's hair
- put hair on one's chest
- curl (someone's) hair
- get in (someone's) hair
- make (someone's) hair curl
- pull one's hair out
- let one's hair down
- in one's hair
- get gray hair
- bad hair day