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SKIN OF HIS TEETH

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Skin of his Teeth I am escaped with the skin of my teeth (Job xix. 20). Just escaped, and that is all- having lost everything. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SKIN OF HIS TEETH

Language Translations for "SKIN OF HIS TEETH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

hänen henkensä oli täpärällä (he escaped by the skin of his teeth), hän pelastui hädintuskin (he escaped by the skin of his teeth, he had a narrow escape). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inskay ofay ishay eethtay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SKIN OF HIS TEETH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-h-i-i-k-n-o-s-s-t-t"

-3 letters: henotheists.

-4 letters: henotheist.

-5 letters: feistiest, fetishist, fistnotes, heftiness, hessonite, honestest, honesties, kittenish, noisettes, shiftiest, shoeshine, stenokies, stinkiest, stonefish, tensities, teosintes, testifies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
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