skin of one's teeth

To do something “by the skin of one's teeth” is to just manage to get it accomplished: “I never thought we'd get the magazine to the printer by the deadline, but we made it by the skin of our teeth.”

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Words nearby skin of one's teeth

skin friction, skin friction drag, skin game, skin graft, skin grafting, skin of one's teeth, skin of our teeth, the, skin off one's nose, skin reaction, skin ridge, skin search
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Idioms and Phrases with skin of one's teeth

skin of one's teeth

see by the skin of one's teeth.

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