Oh thank you anna-- as i wrote that-- i thought were does it come from--but you're reply is exacting right--or is that write?
It was alway part of "she can dane to call her self the Queen of England, but it doesn't make it so...." and my M-W doesn't have dane meaning anything remotely like how i used it...
is a " a hares-breath? (vs a hairs breadth? some phrase i have totally mangled?) or is it some pecular phrase that no one else knows? Goodness knows i have heard it, and used it.. but i have no idea about it...