a narrow squeak
UK informala success that was almost a failure:
We caught the ferry but it was a narrow squeak.
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Success and achievements
- a feather in your cap idiom
- a roaring success idiom
- accomplishment
- achievement
- achievement test
- belt
- boom
- every dog has its day idiom
- feat
- feather
- fruition
- have sth under your belt idiom
- he who laughs last, laughs longest/best idiom
- laugh
- prospect
- quantum leap
- sellout
- success
- success story
- the dizzy heights of sth idiom
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