à deux doigts

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a dø dwa/
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Adverb

à deux doigts

  1. (informal) by a hair's breadth
    Synonym: à un poil
    être à deux doigts de faire quelque choseto be within an ace of doing something, to be within an inch of doing something