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Close call   /kloʊs kɔl/   Listen
Close call

noun
1.
Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin.  Synonyms: close shave, narrow escape, squeak, squeaker.






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"Close call" Quotes from Famous Books



... and took a boat for Vicksburg, where I met Clark the next day, and we divided the boodle that he had brought with him. He told me that after I had left the boat they got lights and went down into the hold, looking for me, as they were sure I was still on the boat. It was a pretty close call, but they were looking for a well-dressed man, and ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol

... says Caribou Sam, "but it don't win over me. Ontil I sees this person Rainey, I shall shorely decline all bottles which is presented in his name. I've had a close call about a bronco I stole to-day, an' when the jury makes a verdict that they're sorry to say the evidence ain't enough to convict, the jedge warns me to be a heap careful of the company I maintains. He exhorts me to live down my past, or failin' which he'll hang me yet. With this bluff from the ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis



Words linked to "Close call" :   accomplishment, achievement, close shave



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