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by the skin of your teeth idiom If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it: 侥幸成功,勉强完成 He escaped from the secret police by the skin of his teeth.他从秘密警察手里侥幸逃脱。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Expressions used to describe situations all things being equalidiom all's well that ends wellidiom around Robin Hood's barnidiom asynchronous be in someone's shoesidiom dead foot funny half a loaf is better than noneidiom have the wind at your backidiom if it's not one thing, it's anotheridiom in the wrong place at the wrong timeidiom it's a funny old worldidiom skin wake up and smell the coffeeidiom way/direction the wind blowsidiom what's cooking?idiom what's done is doneidiom what's onidiom wind
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