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hairbreadth escape
noun as in close call
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"You can't call it exactly a hairbreadth escape," he said moodily.
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My great-great-grandfather in his modest narrative does not mention his own hairbreadth escape.
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"Behold the dashing 'prentice-boy with another hairbreadth escape to his credit," replied the hero.
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There was many a hairbreadth escape, many an almost sousing; but that made it all the more lively.
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I say that one might do a thousand things instead, and that whenever I really come there I have the sense of hairbreadth escape.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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