Idiom of the Day
by a whisker
just barely, by a very small amount
The marathon runner won the race by a whisker.
Fact
The lemur of Madagascar is one of very few of the human species' ancestors that has survived unchanged down the long corridors of evolution. Having developed after the first primates, it is classified as a prosimian, meaning before monkey, and is one of the ancestors common to both monkeys and men.
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