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By a whisker

adverb

By a very small distance

  • I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.

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By a whisker, is the answer.

In fact, by a whisker.

The incumbent lost by a whisker.

Whoever won did so by a whisker.

Not out by a whisker.

Phelps had caught Spitz by a whisker.

A tragedy was averted by a whisker".

4.27pm BST Saved by a whisker!

And not even by a whisker.

It is indeed missing the leg stump by a whisker.

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