hairbreadth escape
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That signaled the city's hairbreadth escape from defaulting on its many loans, bonds, bills and other debts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the majority opinion within the White House is that the Administration has pulled off a hairbreadth escape from calamity.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hairbreadth escape through the bustling back streets of Shanghai!
From Time Magazine Archive
With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your memory of a hairbreadth escape will bring to your cheek the pallor that marked it when the incident occurred.
From The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren
