by a whisker

"There are times when we are watching planes land and we find ourselves saying 'whoa that is close'," said pilot Mo Khimji, noting that strong crosswinds can push a plane into restricted airspace "by a whisker" if the pilot is not careful.

Celtic won, by a whisker or by a mile, it doesn't really matter.

Yoon, who won the top job by a whisker in 2022, was already deeply unpopular and under growing pressure since losing parliamentary elections in April, regarded as a vote of confidence on his time in office.

But there is no longer any denying that Trump could also win, either comfortably or, as he likes to say, by a whisker.

Moldova has opened talks on joining the European Union, and on the same day of the first round Moldovans voted by a whisker to back a change to the constitution embracing the commitment to join the EU.