by the skin of your teeth
If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it:
He escaped from the secret police by the skin of his teeth.
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Expressions used to describe situations
- (just) one of those things idiom
- a bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush) idiom
- all things being equal idiom
- asynchronous
- be in sb's shoes idiom
- be in the same boat idiom
- join
- join the club! idiom
- loaf
- same
- small
- such
- such is life idiom
- thing
- way
- what's done is done idiom
- what's on idiom
- win
- you can't win 'em all idiom
- zero-sum
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