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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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To reach freedom the most famous escapers of modern times have been willing to pull off the impossible: their adventures and struggles are related in The Greatest Escape Stories Ever Told: a blend of history and drama which presents riveting stores of escape, from battling the Bastille to swimming shark-infested waters to avoid the Japanese during the war.
The Greatest Escape Stories Ever Told by Internet Bookwatch
The portraits of freedom-loving individuals and indomitable souls such as the young Zoya Leshcheva, the defiant Anna Skripnikova, the committed escaper Georgi Tenno, and the religious poet Anatoli silin are simply unforgettable.
Traditional prejudices by Mahoney, Daniel J. / Reason
The central issue of the widening North-South gap seems to be trapped in a narrowly defined boundary of resources, hastily reading of the long term trends and an undifferentiated notion of the South that stresses the achievements of the "few" escapers at the expense of the "no-where" majority of LDCs.
11 September and the widening North-South gap: root causes of ... by Elnur, Ibrahim / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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