I was straddling a wafer-thin allegorical fence: The young man my parents wanted me to be versus who I was becoming.

But Mr Johnson told reporters on Wednesday that Republicans "have to be realistic about what we're able to achieve" with their wafer-thin majority.

The surface of gravastars is represented by a wafer-thin skin of ordinary matter, the thickness of which approaches zero.

The silicon semiconductor - wafer-thin and best-known now as a chip - sits at the heart of every technology we use, from iPhones to airplanes.

A special feature of this method is the use of flash-frozen tissue, which is cut wafer-thin.