fine line

noun

: a very small difference

There's a fine line between being helpful and being intrusive.

There's sometimes only a very fine line between genius and madness.

Examples of fine line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2024, the Chiefs went 12-0 in one-score games and rode that fine line all the way to their third straight Super Bowl. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2026

Emotions are what make college football great, but there is a fine line between showing raw emotions and letting emotions get the best of you. — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Even with that acknowledgment, however, there’s still the truth about the way women leaders must walk a fine line between exercising their power without being labeled as bitchy. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Rao plays Issa as someone who rides the fine line between fearless and clinically disinhibited but whose intentions are always pure; why shouldn’t that perv get a taste of his own medicine? — Emily Gould, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for fine line

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