by the skin of one's teeth

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by the skin of one's teeth 的定义

  1. Just barely, very narrowly, as in Doug passed the exam by the skin of his teeth. A related term appears in the Bible, where Job says, “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” presumably meaning he got away with nothing at all. Today the phrase using by is used most often to describe a narrow escape. [c. 1600] Also see squeak through.

by the skin of one's teeth 近义词

by the skin of one's teeth

等同于 closely

更多by the skin of one's teeth例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  5. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.