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a near go (от чего-либо); by the width of a hair (от смерти, опасности и т.п. Technical); by within a hair's breadth of something (от чего-либо); by a whisker of something (от чего-либо Anglophile); a near go go (от чего-либо); within hairbreadth (от чего-либо) | |||
hair's breadth (We were a hair's breadth away from getting caught. Val_Ships) | |||
the turn of a hair (Missed the car by the turn of a hair merriam-webster.com Aussie Ruskie) | |||
near miss (SirReal) | |||
by a hair's breadth of something (от чего-либо); within a hair's breadth of something (от чего-либо) | |||
close call (E.g., It was a close call! Рина Грант); close shave (Напр., "That was a close shave!" "The mountaineers had several close calls/shaves" Рина Грант) | |||
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by a thread (MariaEnglish) | |||
close call (от опасности; The doctor said I'd had a close call, and was lucky to be alive. Val_Ships) | |||
on the threshold of (something Andrey Truhachev); on the threshold of something (Andrey Truhachev) |
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