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come within a whisker of

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come within a whisker of something/doing something
if you come within a whisker of doing something, you almost do it or it almost happens to you. He came within a whisker of beating the world champion. Several times on his trek through the jungle he came within a whisker of death.
See also: come, whisker, within

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