by the skin of your teeth

informalJUST/A MOMENT AGO if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it, and very nearly failed to do it 好不容易才…，差点就没…，勉强

Two others made it by the skin of their teeth.

另外两人勉强通过。

Examples from the Corpus

by the skin of your teeth• Jeff just got into college by the skin of his teeth.• The business is surviving, but only by the skin of its teeth.• The car broke down on the way to the airport and they just caught the plane by the skin of their teeth.

→ by the skin of your teeth at skin1(3)

单词	by the skin of your teeth
释义	by the skin of your teeth by the skin of your teeth informalJUST/A MOMENT AGO if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it, and very nearly failed to do it 好不容易才…，差点就没…，勉强 Two others made it by the skin of their teeth. 另外两人勉强通过。 Examples from the Corpus by the skin of your teeth• Jeff just got into college by the skin of his teeth.• The business is surviving, but only by the skin of its teeth.• The car broke down on the way to the airport and they just caught the plane by the skin of their teeth. → by the skin of your teeth at skin1(3)
随便看	the least of concerns the least of problems the least of sb concerns the least of sb problems the least of sb troubles the least of sb worries the least of somebody's concerns the least of somebody's problems the least of somebody's troubles the least of somebody's worries the least of somebody's worries/problems/troubles/concerns the least of troubles the least of worries the lebanon the-lebanon thelebanon the lecture circuit the lees the leeward islands the-leeward-islands the left the left bank the-left-bank the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing