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cat's whisker

cat's whisker

noun

  1. a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  2. any wire used to make contact with a semiconductor
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥� Complete & Unabridged鈥� 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of cat's whisker1

First recorded in 1910鈥�15
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Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle wins gold "by a cat's whisker" after a dramatic photo finish in the men's snowboard cross final.

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鈥淭his is a woman who is waiting on unemployment benefits, she has a 5-month-old kid, and she did everything she was supposed to do and she only escaped eviction by a cat鈥檚 whisker,鈥� he said later.

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However the following day he told her she had "escaped immediate custody by a cat's whisker".

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As president, he kept the number 鈥�118,573鈥� tucked in his suit pocket, to remind him of the cat鈥檚 whisker margin of his popular-vote victory and the need to keep his campaign promise.

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Shouldn鈥檛 we expect all our elected representatives to be so conversant with the scientific issues of the day that explanations of quantum computing by any one of them should barely twitch a cat鈥檚 whisker?

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