to a hair

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Meaning: (idiomatic)To ahighdegreeofprecision; with theutmostexactness;to a nicety.Synonym:to the turn of a hairc.1602(date written),William Shakespeare,The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid.[…](First Quarto), London:[…]G[eorge]Eldfor R[ichard]Bonian and H[enry]Walley,[…], published1609,→OCLC,[Act III, scene i]:Pand[arus]. Youle remember your brothers excuſe? /Par[is].To a hayre.1912,Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘A Procession! A Procession!’”, inThe Lost World[…], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC,page298:As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trainedto a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.

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