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fine line en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A difference, albeit vague and difficult to discern.
   • "We're not arrogant, we're confident about what we're doing," says Hill, "But there's a fine line between them, isn't there?" 2005 June 20, Steve Rose, quoting Terry Hill, “The men continuing Ove Arup's architectural vision”, in The Guardian:
   • San Francisco songsters The Richter Scales give the world their take on the subprime meltdown in a song that advises there's also a fine line "between the theories and the facts", "between what's solid and what cracks" and "between a gain and a crippling, crushing, mortally wounding decline". 2008 May 16, Katie Allen, “A fine line”, in The Guardian:
   • There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. 1991, Steven Wright, Hysteria:
   • Harvesting Easter eggs is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia. 2023 January 13, Nick Haramis, “When Did We All Become Pop Culture Detectives?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Antonyms

bright line

Deriveds

walk a fine line

Relateds

gray area

Translations (3)

pl cienka linia (Translations) · pt linha tênue (Translations) · fi häilyvä raja (Translations)