come within a hair's breadth of (someone or something)
come within a hair's breadth of (someone or something)
To very nearly obtain, achieve, or experience something. She came within a hair's breadth of the gold medal, but her leg cramped in the last few meters. Hundreds of people came within a hair's breadth of death when their apartment building caught on fire in the middle of the night.
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- come within a hair of (someone or something)
- come within an inch of
- come within an inch of (something)
- come within an inch of doing
- come within an inch of doing something
- come within an ace of
- come within an ace of (something)
- come within an ace of something
- come within a whisker of (something)
- come within a whisker of something