Hair-breadth ʹScape
. A very narrow escape from some evil. In measurement the forty-eighth part of an inch is called a “hair-breadth.”
“Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth ʹscapes i thʹ imminent deadly breach.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.