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by a whisker

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Definitions

  1. 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.

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