narrow win
Just barely prevailed
A narrow win is a victory achieved by a small margin—a close contest where the outcome could easily have gone the other way.
The phrase appears in sports, elections, and any competitive situation: The team secured a narrow win in overtime, She claimed a narrow win with 51% of the vote.
The narrowness emphasizes how precarious the success was.
- squeakerBarely-won contest
- razor thinExtremely narrow margin
- close callDisaster narrowly averted
- too close to callUndecidable by current count
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
margin · by a whisker · nail-biter · photo finish · edge of seat · clutch · comeback · upset · overtime · sudden death · thriller · buzzer-beater · last second · scrape · skin of teeth · close shave · eked out · tight
narrow winblowout
Sudden tire failure
landslide · landslide victory · rout · lopsided victory · thrashing
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