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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a touch on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a slight or gentle contact with something, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "She gave a touch on his shoulder to get his attention."
Alternatives: "a hint of" or "a bit of".
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Andy Brassell: "If Porto's season looks a touch on the bleak side, one can only consider how much worse it would be without their star striker Jackson Martinez.
"We're both a touch on the conservative side," Stallings said.
Actually Cech might have got a touch on this.
"Particularly because I got a touch on it.
A touch on the lip he felt on his phantom index finger, a touch on the lower jaw in his phantom pinkie.
Retrenchment and simplification – a touch on the tiller – are all that is needed.
So I was able to get a touch on it and slide it away".
Even a gentle vibration mimicking a touch on your face through your smartphone.
At the far end, Inzaghi almost gets a touch on an excellent cross.
I got a touch on Bastian Schweinsteiger's, too, and turned it on to a post.
At 5ft 8in, Cole is a touch on the short side for a footballer.
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