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close call [kləʊs] n
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Close behind him were two more--fifty yards perhaps--but the distance gave me time to snatch up the dead guardsman's shield, for the close call his hatchet had just given me had borne in upon me the urgent need I had for one. "Now we are safe," I said, "but it was a close call -- so to speak. You had a close call tonight, Rokoff; do not tempt fate a second time. |
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close call - something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin