Meaning of "You missed it by just a hare" [closed]
What does the sentence "You missed it by just a hare" mean, in this context:
Think these are rabbits? You missed it by just a hare
If the context is about rabbit. What are the possible meanings of the bold sentence?
Edit: The writer is making a pun on the homophones "hair" and "hare." (I'm imagining that the reader is seeing a picture of animals that look like rabbits. But these apparent rabbits are not actually rabbits. The reader's perception was off "by a hair.")
I think the correct phrase is "by a hair" or "by a whisker."
By a whisker at Cambridge Dictionary means "by a very small amount."
So if you missed by a hair or by a whisker, you missed by a very small amount.