by the skin of your teeth
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by the skin of your teeth — idiom
1. if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you succeed in doing it but only
1.idiom
Definition
if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you succeed in doing it but only just, and you almost fail.
Example
The Watanabe family escaped the flood by the skin of their teeth as the water reached their doorstep.
Jude passed the maths exam by the skin of his teeth with a score of exactly sixty per cent.