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within an inch of your life within an inch of (one's) lifeAlmost entirely. Our neighbor is in the hospital because a burglar beat him to within an inch of his life. The sudden blaring of the alarm scared me within an inch of my life.See also: inch, life, of, withinwithin an inch of your life almost to the point of death. 1997 Marian Keyes Rachel's Holiday He kept touching his hair, which, as well as being dyed to within an inch of its life, was blowdried, flicked and rigid with spray. See also: inch, life, of, within |