by the skin of your teeth

informalJUST/A MOMENT AGO if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it, and very nearly failed to do it 好不容易才…，差点就没…，勉强

Two others made it by the skin of their teeth.

另外两人勉强通过。

Examples from the Corpus

by the skin of your teeth• Jeff just got into college by the skin of his teeth.• The business is surviving, but only by the skin of its teeth.• The car broke down on the way to the airport and they just caught the plane by the skin of their teeth.

→ by the skin of your teeth at skin1(3)

词汇	by the skin of your teeth
释义	by the skin of your teeth by the skin of your teeth informalJUST/A MOMENT AGO if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it, and very nearly failed to do it 好不容易才…，差点就没…，勉强 Two others made it by the skin of their teeth. 另外两人勉强通过。 Examples from the Corpus by the skin of your teeth• Jeff just got into college by the skin of his teeth.• The business is surviving, but only by the skin of its teeth.• The car broke down on the way to the airport and they just caught the plane by the skin of their teeth. → by the skin of your teeth at skin1(3)
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