| 词组 | by the skin of your teeth |
| 释义 | Idiom by the skin of your teethby the skin of (your) teeth informal if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it.We escaped by the skin of our teeth.England held on by the skin of their teeth to win 1-0. by the skin of (one's) teethBarely. Often used to describe something that almost didn't happen. Oh man, my car wouldn't start this morning—I just made it here by the skin of my teeth! by the skin of your teethCOMMON If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you just manage to do it but very nearly fail. In the men's First Division, the champions survived by the skin of their teeth. She was there when the fighting started and escaped by the skin of her teeth. Note: This expression seems to come from the book of Job in the Bible, although its meaning has completely changed. Job loses everything and then says `I am escaped with the skin of my teeth' (Job 19:20), meaning that the skin of his teeth is all he has left. by the skin of your teethby a very narrow margin; only just. |
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