skin of your teeth
- narrow escapeBarely avoiding disaster
- close callDisaster narrowly averted
- barelyOnly just, almost not
- scrape bySurvive with minimal resources
- luckyFavored by chance
hair's breadth · near miss · last second · razor thin · dodged · survival · relief · heart pounding · breathless · clutch · scraping · whisker · edge · brink · photo finish · hanging on · desperate · sweat
margin of success/escape
skin of your teethby a mile
hands down · easily · by a landslide · in a walk · with flying colors
outcome certainty
skin of your teethfell short
Failed to reach goal
not even close · crashed and burned · dead in the water · so close yet so far