by a whisker

English

Prepositional phrase

by a whisker

1. By a very small distance.

   I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.

   • 2023 May 27, Stephen Burgen, “‘They say I should clean floors’: Barcelona’s working-class, leftwing mayor Ada Colau fights for third term”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Her communitarian platform Barcelona en Comú won by a whisker, and there was an initial period of transition from Colau the activist who fought the police to Colau the mayor who was responsible for them.

Synonyms

• by a nose, by a nose length