Talk:within an inch of one's life

Etymology

What meaning of within is use here? JMGN (talk) 23:21, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

The normal sense 1, "physically inside", i.e. the distance is less than an inch. The idiom can be understood as "within an inch of [the end of] one's life". —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 18:43, 4 March 2023 (UTC)