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