skin of one's teeth

Cultural  

1. 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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skin of one's teeth Idioms  

1. see by the skin of one's teeth.

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Example Sentences

He should have made many mistakes and been saved often by the skin of his teeth, for the skin of one’s teeth is the most teaching thing about one. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel