by a whisker
by a verysmallamount:
一丝儿，一点儿，很少量Lasttimesheracedagainst the Brazilian, shewonby awhisker.上次她和那个巴西人赛跑，仅以微弱优势取胜。
Closeness in distance and time
- a hair's breadthidiom
- a stone's throwidiom
- about
- ace
- anywhere
- anywhere nearidiom
- approachable
- around
- hand to handidiom
- hard by
- here
- hereabouts
- roof
- round the corneridiom
- shadow
- shout
- step
- stick together
- super-convenient
- tailgating
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Merely and barely
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When any of the experimental objects is scannedbyawhiskersensor the resulting sequence of points will either form a straight line or a convex circular arc.
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The rearmament of the late 1930s saved usbyawhiskeronly.
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It appears to have missed the opportunitybyawhisker.
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It was onlybyawhiskerthat it decided to include it.
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They only managed itbyawhisker, because the amendment would have been starred had these deliberations taken place yesterday.
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The local authority representatives will be marginally in the majority, though in somebyawhiskeronly—a majority of only one on certain authorities.
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Minor accidents have already occured and more serious ones have been avoidedbyawhisker.
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He missed it onlybyawhisker.
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A genoa gull-wings well, especially if stabilizedbyawhiskerpole, which is similar to but lighter than a spinnaker pole.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Player and club performed in fits and starts for most of the year, before the team came roaring home, missing the finalsbyawhisker.
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