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Finger's breadth   /fˈɪŋgərz brɛdθ/   Listen
Finger's breadth

noun
1.
The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.  Synonyms: digit, finger, fingerbreadth.






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"Finger's breadth" Quotes from Famous Books



... collapsed balloon, like an iceberg in an Atlantic storm, like a boat in the Niagara rapids, she moved on sullenly, recklessly, mechanically, mayhap into the very jaws of the most frightful danger, the bright intelligences within no more able to modify her motions even by a finger's breadth than they were able to affect ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... de Coetlogon were still friends; they had disputed and differed and come within a finger's breadth of war, and they were still friends. But an event was at hand which was to separate them for ever. On December 4th came the Royalist, Captain Hand, to relieve the Lizard. Pelly of course had to take his canvas from the consulate hospital; ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson



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