narrow escape 的定义
- A barely successful flight from or avoidance of danger or trouble, as in He had a narrow escape, since the bullet came within inches of his head. This expression uses narrow in the sense of “barely sufficient.” [Late 1500s] For a newer synonym, see close call.
narrow escape 近义词
等同于 cliffhanger
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等同于 near miss
narrow escape 的近义词 6 个
等同于 close call
更多narrow escape例句
- What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.
- After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
- The irony did not escape one local, Laith Hathim, as he stood and watched the newly minted refugees make their way into Mosul.
- His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.
- This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
- "Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
- The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.
- He is rather tall and narrow, and wears a long abb's coat reaching nearly down to his feet.
- As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
- Thinking to escape and summon assistance from the cantonment, Douglas mounted the wall and leaped into the moat.