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n. (narrow squeak English)
Usage examples of "narrow squeaks".
I have all the close shaves and narrow squeaks in my life that my constitution will stand, and my daily struggles with bureaucrats, tax-gatherers and uplifters are more exhausting than any encounters with mere buccaneers on the Spanish Main.
But when travelling abroad, generally by himself, meals were a welcome break in the day, something to look forward to, something to break the tension of fast driving, with its risks taken or avoided, the narrow squeaks, the permanent background of concern for the fitness of his machine.
Beloved, we've come through so many narrow squeaks together that I'm not ever going to worry again.
Even Skinny resorted to fancy footwork and I had three narrow squeaks.
In that four years you had some very narrow squeaks, and you acquired some interesting scars, and you never killed anyone.