| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hair-breadth 'Scape | Literature | 1: A very narrow escape from some evil. In measurement the forty-eighth part of an inch is called a "hair-breadth." 2: "Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 3: Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly reach.' Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3. 4: Of moving accidents by flood and field,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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