fine line
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.04 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A difference, albeit vague and difficult to discern.
Example Sentences
- "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
- ""We're not arrogant, we're confident about what we're doing," says Hill, "But there's a fine line between them, isn't there?""
- "San Francisco songsters The Richter Scales give the world their take on the subprime meltdown in a song that advises there's also a fine line "between the theories and the facts", "between what's solid and what cracks" and "between a gain and a crippling, crushing, mortally wounding decline"."
- "Harvesting Easter eggs is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
walk a fine line
gray area