Player and club performed in fits and starts for most of the year, before the team came roaring home, missing the finals by a whisker.
A genoa gull-wings well, especially if stabilized by a whisker pole, which is similar to but lighter than a spinnaker pole.
He missed it only by a whisker.
Minor accidents have already occured and more serious ones have been avoided by a whisker.
The local authority representatives will be marginally in the majority, though in some by a whisker only—a majority of only one on certain authorities.
They only managed it by a whisker, because the amendment would have been starred had these deliberations taken place yesterday.
It was only by a whisker that it decided to include it.
It appears to have missed the opportunity by a whisker.
