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to a hair

/tuː‿ə ˈhɛə/US/tu‿ə ˈhɛ(ə)ɹ/

to a hair prepositional phrase: to a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) To a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.
    • Pand[arus]. Youle remember your brothers excuſe? / Par[is]. To a hayre.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...
    • As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘A Procession! A Procession!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 298

to a hair meaning in Bengali

to a hair in Bengali

অত্যন্ত নির্ভুলভাবে, অত্যন্ত যথাযথভাবে

Synonyms of to a hair

Origin of to a hair

A reference to the very small diameter of a strand of hair: compare hair's breadth.

Words that rhyme with to a hair

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Questions about to a hair

What does to a hair mean?
To a hair means to a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.
What is to a hair in Bengali?
To a hair in Bengali is অত্যন্ত নির্ভুলভাবে, অত্যন্ত যথাযথভাবে. See To a hair meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is to a hair?
To a hair is a prepositional phrase.
How do you pronounce to a hair?
To a hair is pronounced /tuː‿ə ˈhɛə/ (UK).

Words near to a hair in the dictionary

  1. to a fault
  2. to a fine fare-thee-well
  3. to a first approximation
  4. to a great extent
  5. to a greater extent
  6. to a hair
  7. to a hammer, everything looks like a nail
  8. to a large extent
  9. to a lesser extent
  10. to a man
  11. to a nicety

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