极短的距离
hair's breadth //
单数型名词 A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount. 毫发之差; 极小量
The dollar fell to within a hair's breadth of its all-time low.
美元汇率小幅下跌，又创新低。
a very small distance or space
同义词： hair's-breadth / hairsbreadth / hair / whisker
The forger was in his eighties; however, he had not lost a hair's-breadth of his ability in making sword.
这位铁匠今年已经八十高龄，可是他做宝剑的能力依然丝毫不减。
They were within a hair's breadth of being killed.
他们险些丧命。
We won by a hair's breadth.
我们以些微之差赢了对手。
The Welsh Assembly was set up only after a referendum approved it by a hair's-breadth, and that was after years of devolution campaigning by Labour.
Ms Mayhew came within a hair's-breadth of becoming a Tory MP in 1997 when she just missed winning the selection contest for Hampshire North West, one of the party's safest seats in the country.
Researchers have trapped a rainbow - slowing light to a near-stop - in an array of 25, 000 "invisibility cloaks", each smaller than a hair's breadth.