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📖 Определения и значения для слова inch

📒 a unit for measuring length or height, equal to 2.54 centimetres. There are 12 inches in a foot.

  • She's a few inches taller than me.
  • a laptop with a 15-inch screen
  • Each image measures 46 x 28 inches.

📒 a small amount or distance

  • by an inch He escaped death by an inch.
  • by inches The car missed us by inches.
  • within an inch of (doing) something She was within an inch of being killed.

📒 the whole of something

  • The doctor examined every inch of his body.
  • (figurative) If they try to fire me I'll fight them every inch of the way.

📒 completely

  • In his first game the young player already looked every inch a winner.

📒 used to say that if you allow some people a small amount of freedom or power they will see you as weak and try to take a lot more

📒 very slowly and with great care or difficulty

  • She crawled forward inch by inch.

📒 to refuse to change your position, decision, etc. even a little

  • We tried to negotiate a lower price but they wouldn't budge an inch.

📒 to not trust somebody at all

  • He says he just wants to help you but I wouldn’t trust him an inch if I were you.
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