hairbreadth escape
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Harold Lloyd, the Hairbreadth Harry of the silent comics, had a hairbreadth escape when prints of his early films, which he valued at $2 million, went up in explosive fire in his private film vault.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
In attending the circuit courts of Mississippi he had experiences of the roughest sort and many a hairbreadth escape.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
