hairbreadth escape

And with that hairbreadth escape, the last big Dodgers push died.

You should feel that your safety in the journey about which you prayed was as much due to God, though only through the operation of natural causes, as if you had had a hairbreadth escape.

He was hurrying home to tell his wife of his hairbreadth escape from death.

One hairbreadth escape succeeds another with rapidity that scarce leaves the reader breathing space....

“Let the flame singe your clothing, tell some sensational story of a hairbreadth escape, and you’ll be quite a hero.”