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by the skin of one's teeth
When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
(See hake's teeth.)
Those parts of a matting or pointing interwoven with the rest in an irregular manner, so as to spoil the uniformity. (See pointing.) In soundings, see hake's teeth.
When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.