| 单词 | a close, near shave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa close, near shave a. A slight or grazing touch; hence, a narrow escape from touching, more emphatically a close, near shave and the like. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > narrow > from touching a close, near shave1834 touch1837 1834 R. H. Froude Remains 23 Nov. (1838) I. 381 I seem to myself to have had a shave, if indeed I have weathered the point yet. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 73 We passed clear; but it was a close shave. 1866 C. Dickens Mugby Junction v, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 10 Dec. 27/1 The next instant the hind coach passed my engine by a shave. It was the nearest touch I ever saw. 1892 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. xix. 329 I had a narrow shave to get down to Osborne. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 77 Accomplishing the distance..with equally remarkable near shaves of a collision. < as lemmas |
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