When an accident nearly happens, we say it is a close shave .
I just found out from the papers today that she escaped from an earthquake in japan... gosh! that was really a close shave!
That was a close shave, nearly leaving your passport behind.
Earth got a close shave Monday morning from an asteroid so small it was originally mistaken for space junk.
A new razor gives a close shave.
His life is no longer in danger, but it was a close shave.
A sharp razor gives a close shave.
UZBEKISTAN. Ferghana Valley. Margilan. 2002. Here in the center of the underground religious movement, nearly all men keep a close shave to avoid government suspicion.
I do not like a close shave, and would not let him go over me a second time
He did, however, have one close shave in the 100m butterfly which he won by the smallest possible margin of just 0.01 seconds, and in another he had to contend with a faulty pair of goggles.
Large enough to flatten an average city, asteroid brushed past the Earth at close shave
That was a close shave. The car just missed that perambulator.
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