narrow escape
Just made it
A narrow escape is a situation where someone barely avoids danger, harm, or an undesirable outcome.
The narrowness suggests how thin the margin was between safety and disaster: We had a narrow escape when the tree fell just behind the car.
A close call, a brush with catastrophe.
- close callDisaster narrowly averted
- near missNarrowly averted incident
- hairbreadthExtremely narrow margin
- squeakerBarely-won contest
- by a whiskerBy the slimmest margin
close shave · touch and go · just in time · skin of the teeth · dodged a bullet · lucky break · eleventh hour · near thing · whew · cliffhanger · relief · brink · brush with death · miracle · fine line · ducked · rescue · precipice
- suspensesuspense, suspenseful, tension, nail-biter, nail-biting
- chasespursuit, chase, flee, fleeing, run
- close callsclose call, near miss, close shave, nick of time, skin of teeth
- escapeflee, run away, get away, flight, breakout
- Escape Termsbreak free, get away, run away, getaway, break out
- Rescue Storyhero, savior, rescue, danger, peril