dodge a bullet
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɒdʒ ə ˈbʊlɪt/
- (idiomatic, informal) To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury, disaster, or some other undesirable situation.
- 1989 Dec. 7, Milt Freudenheim, "Scramble on Health-Care Costs ↗," New York Times (retrieved 6 March 2014):
- "We have all these thousands of bill payers trying to dodge a bullet, trying to shift costs and pay less."
- 2010 Nov. 8, Jessica Desvarieux, "[http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2029982,00.html A Storm Averted, Haiti's Cholera Threat Grows]," Time (retrieved 6 March 2014):
- Haiti dodged a bullet when Tropical Storm Tomas, once a hurricane, did minimal damage to the country's earthquake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince.
- 2013 Oct. 4, Tony Nitti, "Switching Gears ↗," Forbes (retrieved 6 March 2014):
- By finding and fixing my aneurysm before it ruptured, I had miraculously dodged a bullet.
- 1989 Dec. 7, Milt Freudenheim, "Scramble on Health-Care Costs ↗," New York Times (retrieved 6 March 2014):
- French: l’échapper belle
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