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by a whisker

by a whisker prepositional phrase: by a very small distance.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (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

by a whisker meaning in Tamil

by a whisker in Tamil

மயிரிழையில், இம்மியளவில்

Synonyms of by a whisker

Questions about by a whisker

What does by a whisker mean?
By a whisker means by a very small distance.
What is by a whisker in Tamil?
By a whisker in Tamil is மயிரிழையில், இம்மியளவில். See By a whisker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is by a whisker?
By a whisker is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by a whisker in the dictionary

  1. by a long shot
  2. by a long way
  3. by a nose
  4. by a nose length
  5. by a time
  6. by a whisker
  7. by a whisper
  8. by a wide margin
  9. by accident
  10. by all accounts
  11. by all appearances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by a whisker (page history and authors); by a whisker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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