间不容发
jiān​bù​róng​fà

by a hair's breadth

  • created sense approved 间不容发/間不容髮 · jiān​bù​róng​fà · by a hair's breadth — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    间不容发 / 間不容髮

    jiān​bù​róng​fà

    by a hair's breadth

    extremely critical or precarious situation where not even a single hair can be inserted between things

    jiàn​bù​róng​fǎ

    间 (literal) → 间/間 · jiàn · gap 不 (literal) → 不 · bu · [potential] 容 (literal) → 容 · róng · to hold 发 (literal) → 发/髮 · fà · hair

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense