close call
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kləʊskɔːl/
close call (plural close calls)
- A situation in which an injury or other undesirable outcome is narrowly avoided.
- He had a close call when a truck ran a red light and almost hit him.
- near shave
- narrow escape
- narrow squeak
- close shave
- close thing
- near thing
- German: um ein Haar Davonkommen
- Spanish: escape por los pelos
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