by\ the\ skin\ of\ one's\ teeth

by\ the\ skin\ of\ one's\ teeth
adv. phr.
By a narrow margin; with no room to spare; barely.

The drowning man struggled, and I got him to land by the skin of my teeth.

She passed English by the skin of her teeth.

Compare: squeak through, within an ace of or within an inch of

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