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close call

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close call
1. a very difficult decision Apparently it was a close call, but after a long debate the jury convicted her.
2. something bad that almost happened close shave Sam had several close calls while he was learning to drive with his dad.
See also: call, close


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Close behind him were two more--fifty yards perhaps--but the distance gave me time to snatch up the dead guardsman's shield, for the close call his hatchet had just given me had borne in upon me the urgent need I had for one.
"Now we are safe," I said, "but it was a close call -- so to speak.
You had a close call tonight, Rokoff; do not tempt fate a second time.
 
 
 
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