WordNet
narrow escape
n. something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin [syn: close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker]
Usage examples of "narrow escape".
Eli Strone had no choice but to stand there, his eyes round at his narrow escape.
She was referring to Anakin's narrow escape in the Yag'Dhul system a few months before, when, along with Corran Horn and Tahiri, he escaped an almost certain death by capturing a Yuuzhan Vong scouting ship.