narrow escape

狭路相逢勇者胜狭路相逢逃过一劫狭路相逢在所难免

narrow escape 的定义

  1. 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

narrow escape

等同于 cliffhanger

narrow escape

等同于 near miss

narrow escape

等同于 close call

更多narrow escape例句

  1. What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.
  2. After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
  3. The irony did not escape one local, Laith Hathim, as he stood and watched the newly minted refugees make their way into Mosul.
  4. His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.
  5. This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
  6. "Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
  7. The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.
  8. He is rather tall and narrow, and wears a long abb's coat reaching nearly down to his feet.
  9. As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
  10. Thinking to escape and summon assistance from the cantonment, Douglas mounted the wall and leaped into the moat.