by a whisker/hair
на волосок, чуть-чуть не
Пример использования идиомы by a whisker/hair:
He shot at me and just missed hitting me by a hair.
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Другие идиомы:
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- bet on the wrong horse
- black sheep of the family
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bull in a china shop
- buy a pig in a poke
- by shank's mare
- bat out of hell
- bats in the belfry
- bird brain
- bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- birds and bees