a hair's breadth

a very small distance or amount Enemy forces are within a hair's breadth of the city. We were a hair's breadth away from getting caught. (= we were almost caught)

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Matthias	mah-TEE-ahs (German), mə-THIE-əs (English)	Greek, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
William	WIL-ee-əm, WIL-yəm	English
Dipa	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil
Fricis	-	Latvian
Nyazik	-	Turkmen
Ippolit	-	Russian