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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. |
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And they may unfold a tale of narrow escape, of steady ill-luck, of high winds and heavy weather, of ice, of interminable calms or endless head-gales; a tale of difficulties overcome, of adversity defied by a small knot of men upon the great loneliness of the sea; a tale of resource, of courage - of helplessness, perhaps.
Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. In my early life I had a narrow escape from death by poisoning. |
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