win / lose by a whisker

win / lose by a whisker informalto win or lose by a very small amount以微弱之差获胜/落败:•Schmidt finished second, losing by a whisker in the final event.施密特在最后的项目中以微弱差距落败，获得第二。

• sock
• botch up
• apodous larvae
• energy
• drying oven
• kangaroo grass
• burden of proof
• bred in the bone
• slap in
• rockfish
• modom
• in a sweat
• gabbard
• four-by-fours
• minibars
• knock someone off his pedestal
• pull (或draw, make, put on, wear) a long face
• amidation
• leeways
• immunodeficient
• humidistat
• archaeological sequence
• bearbaiting
• conspued
• reflex klystron
• manual spinning
• safety chains
• zealot
• shoot out the lip
• sick list
• paraphernal
• deflationism
• hamstered
• balminesses
• congo
• superregeneration
• contraposed
• Lowry, Malcolm
• St. John's
• gangliosidosis
• tune something out
• voltaireans
• Carpenter, John Alden
• ice picks
• obols
• iridescences
• fool along
• pea ore
• phase angles
• isoetes
• interrupted aging
• indigests
• ski lift
• swan-flower
• master phonograph record
• antiphrastic
• sheet-fed
• shades of -
• striped-trousers
• credit card
• person-to-person call
• push along
• militarias
• generating flow
• kerbelas
• mineralization
• chrome
• order port
• break of day/dawn
• blacklettered
• Mahicans
• weather ships
• humoresques
• adenine
• deepening
• poison pen
• Malayo-Polynesian
• Sanskritizing
• sleep like a top
• prison without bars
• tranquilizer
• outsold
• bladderworm
• shoeshine boy
• impaneling或impanelling
• cavils
• electroluminescent
• jot sth ↔ down
• vesico-
• white blood cells
• tarantella
• cohoshes
• benday
• Sinico-
• agriproducts
• hyperbolic amplitude
• mind mapping
• cattleya
• useably
• Douro