by the skin of your teeth
(informal)
- if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it;
by the smallest margin;
just barely.;
- used to describe a situation from which one barely managed to escape -or, conversely, a situation in which one failed to win by a very narrow margin.;
- we usually say it when we have done something just in the nick of time or avoided/missed something by a very narrow margin, by a hair's breath.
We escaped by the skin of our teeth.
England held on by the skin of their teeth to win 1-0.
I
got to the airport a few minutes late and missed the plane by the
skin of my teeth.
Lloyd
escaped from the burning building by the skin of his teeth.
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