A FINE LINE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of a fine line in English

a fine line

idiom Add to word list Add to word list C1 If you say that there is a fine line between one thing and another, you mean that they are very similar. You often say this when one thing is acceptable and the other is not: As a parent, I knew that there was a fine line between panic and caution. Different and difference

• altered
• alterity
• alternative
• anomalous
• another
• disparate
• disparately
• disparity
• dissimilar
• dissimilarly
• make a distinction between something
• make the difference idiom
• misc.
• misfit
• new
• unreflective
• unrepresentative
• unrepresentativeness
• unstandardized
• untraditional

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a fine line | American Dictionary

a fine line

idiom (also a thin line) Add to word list Add to word list a very small difference between two things that may seem different: There’s sometimes a very thin line between love and hate. As a comedian, I’m always walking that fine line between humor and sarcasm (= finding a balance between them). (Definition of a fine line from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of a fine line

in Chinese (Traditional) （两者）有所不同… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （两者）有所不同… See more in Spanish una línea muy fina… See more Need a translator?

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• tread/walk a fine line (between something and something) idiom

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