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Just by the nick of the hair

Posted: February 3, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |Leave a comment

Heard this one today on The Price is Right. A contestant said this after spinning the big wheel with the arrow barely landing on the right amount. This is a congruent conflation of “just in the nick of time” and “by a hair”, both describing an extremely slim or short margin. A big thanks to Elaine Hatfield for hearing this one and yelling it to me upstairs.

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