| 释义 |
dodge a bullet
idiommainly USinformal
If you dodge a bullet, you only just manage to avoid something bad, harmful, or unpleasant:
We dodged a bullet when the financial crisis hit.
The closure is especially difficult for workers who thought they had dodged the redundancy bullet.
It's been very stressful, but in the end I think we've dodged a bullet with this deal.
Officials breathed a sigh of relief after the storm passed through, saying that the city had dodged a bullet.
Nobody was hurt and no one's house was damaged, so we believe that we have dodged a big bullet.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
avoid
avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
end-run
eschew
evader
evasion
fiddle
fiddle around
insure
shirk
short circuit
shrink from something
shy away from something
sit on your arseidiom
steer
welch
Welsh
|