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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
by a whisker en · ADP
Meanings
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(idiomatic) By a very small distance.
I'm lucky to be alive. The bus missed me by a whisker.
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.
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, →ISSN:
Synonyms
by a nose · by a whisper · by a nose length