narrow escape
English
Noun
narrow escape (plural narrow escapes)
- A situation in which an accident or other unfortunate incident is only just avoided.
- 1939 September, Charles E. Lee, “The Sirhowy Valley and its Railways—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
- Meredith referred to the turnpike or carriage road constructed by the Tredegar Iron Company alongside the tramroad from Penllwyn Mawr to Tredegar, and said there was no fence between the two; he had experienced narrow escapes at times when on horseback, for horses occasionally took fright when meeting locomotives.
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Translations
a situation in which an accident or other unfortunate incident is only just avoided
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References
- “narrow escape”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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