near miss
差点错过,险些错过,险些失手,险情
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- : a strike by a missile that is not a direct hit but is close enough to damage the target.
- : an instance of two vehicles, aircraft, etc., narrowly avoiding a collision.
- : something that falls narrowly short of its object or of success: an interesting movie, but a near miss.
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The near miss shaped how she thought about sight, light, and darkness, and it guided her into a career studying marine bioluminescence.
We had near misses in the 90s and a few in the early aughts.
Certainly, she seems to command near-total devotion among her clients.
Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
So, why no Jewess in the mix of more recent and diverse Miss Americas?
Her Miss America win transcended mere superficial beauty standards.
In 1995, Myerson made a point not to attend the 75th anniversary of the Miss America pageant.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.
The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.