dodge a bullet

To narrowly avoid something or some situation that turns out to be undesirable, disastrous, dangerous, or otherwise harmful. A: "I heard that John has become a drug addict and is living out of his car. Didn't you two used to date?" B: "Yeah, but we broke up about five years ago. Looks like I dodged a bullet on that one." I really dodged the bullet when my exam was postponed to next week, as I hadn't studied for it at all!

词组	dodge a bullet
释义	dodge a bullet dodge a bullet To narrowly avoid something or some situation that turns out to be undesirable, disastrous, dangerous, or otherwise harmful. A: "I heard that John has become a drug addict and is living out of his car. Didn't you two used to date?" B: "Yeah, but we broke up about five years ago. Looks like I dodged a bullet on that one." I really dodged the bullet when my exam was postponed to next week, as I hadn't studied for it at all! See also: bullet, dodge Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: dodge leave (someone, something, or oneself) (wide) open to (something) leave open leave yourself wide open to something land up in (something) reconcile (oneself) to (something) reconcile oneself to in a cleft stick get out of jail free card go into (one's) shell
随便看	nothing in it for (one) nothing in (something) nothing is certain but death and taxes nothing is certain but the unforeseen nothing is given so freely as advice nothing is sacred nothing is so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse nothing less than nothing less than (something) nothing like nothing like that nothing loath nothing more than nothing more than (something) nothing much nothing new under the sun nothing of the kind nothing of the kind/sort nothing of the sort nothing on earth nothing short of nothing so bad but (it) might have been worse Nothing so bad but might have been worse nothing special nothing succeeds like success