Win by a nose
Also, win by a whisker. Just barely succeed, as in Sally’s political cartoon came in first in the contest, but I heard that she won by a nose. This term comes from horseracing, where from about 1900 on it referred to a finish so close that only a portion of the horse’s nose reached the finish ahead of the second horse. A whisker—that is, a hair—is a narrower margin yet. [ Second half of 1900s ]
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