nyaris: almost, hair breadth difference, narrowly.Have you ever being in the situation where you already wait for something/someone/some event to happen and after waiting for sometime it's not there yet and you go with disappointment. But just when you go for a minute, the thing/people/event is there, and you can do nothing and only see it/him/her from afar.
So, I was going to a local grocery store here, and then I waited for the bus to go home. According to the schedule, bus is supposed to be there every hour or so. So I wait.
And I waited.
15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes passed. Well, probably I came just after the previous bus came, so it's a tough luck but let's just wait.
And I waited.