"A NARROW ESCAPE"
If you have a narrow escape, you survive a dangerous situation, but only just.
Example: While many people died in the explosion outside the market, my cousin had a narrow escape because he'd left the market a minute before.
Por un pelo.
Example sentences:
- He had a narrow escape when he fell off his motorbike. If he'd fallen off a second earlier, he would have been killed by the truck that had just passed by / Él se salvó por un pelo cuando se cayó de su moto. Si hubiera caído de un segundo antes, habría sido asesinado por el camión que acababa de pasar por el.
- He only just got out of the vehicle before the whole thing blew up. It was a narrow escape / Él acababa de salir del vehículo antes de que todo explotara. Fue salvado por un pelo.
Additional examples:
- Ken nearly lost all his money in the stock market crash, but he made a narrow escape thanks to a friend who told him to sell off his shares the day before it happened.
- He had a narrow escape when he almost fell from his bicycle.
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