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escape
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a narrow escape
a situation in which you were lucky because you just managed to avoid danger or trouble. He only just got out of the vehicle before the whole thing blew up. It was a narrow escape.
See also: narrow
it escapes me
1. I do not notice something. If there was something important in that package, it certainly escaped me.
2. I do not remember something. I knew his name a minute ago, but now it escapes me.
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