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.

See also: breadth, come, of, within

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come up through the ranks
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come up with the rations
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come/crawl out of the woodwork
come/fall apart at the seams
come/get to grips with somebody/something
come/get to the point
come/go down/up in the world
come/go full circle
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come/spring to mind
come/turn up trumps
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come with him
Come with Me
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Come with Us
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come within a whisker of (something)
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