hairbreadth escape

"You can't call it exactly a hairbreadth escape," he said moodily.

My great-great-grandfather in his modest narrative does not mention his own hairbreadth escape.

"Behold the dashing 'prentice-boy with another hairbreadth escape to his credit," replied the hero.

There was many a hairbreadth escape, many an almost sousing; but that made it all the more lively.

I say that one might do a thousand things instead, and that whenever I really come there I have the sense of hairbreadth escape.