"A hair's breadth" nghĩa là gì?

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'A hair's breadth' = độ rộng bằng một sợi tóc -> số lượng rất nhỏ hoặc khoảng cách ngắn.

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This week, many of us will have been enjoying long relaxing evenings in the back garden, blissfully unaware of a threat which had skipped us by a hair’s breadth.

Fans who watched Evers come within a hair’s breadth of Angler of the Year honors several times over his 22-year career rejoiced (vui mừng, hãnh diện) in his MLF Points Champion title this season.

Since the project was announced (thông báo) in 2008, it's been besieged (bao vây) with obstacles (cản trở, khó khăn), and last year came within a hair's breadth of shutting down completely. Now, though, it's back on track, and its team has announced a new testing timeline.

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