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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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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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