Narrow Escape

Definition: Narrow Escape

Narrow Escape

Noun

1. Something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin.

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Synonyms: Narrow Escape

Escape

N.escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion; (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity.

Crosswords: Narrow Escape

Buster's Narrow Escape (1926)

Freddy's Narrow Escape (1916)

Bill's Narrow Escape (1916)

The Indians' Narrow Escape (1915)

A Narrow Escape (1911)

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The Kin-der-Kids]. The Kin-der-Kids' narrow escape from Aunty Jimja. Credit: Library of Congress.

A narrow escape. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moose and wolves a narrow escape. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

FROGGY has had a very narrow escape of not being named at all!

He had just had a narrow escape.

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Expressions using "narrow escape": have a narrow escape ♦ he had a narrow escape. Additional references.

Albanian

shpëtoi për një fije floku (he had a narrow escape). (various references)

Czech

uniknout jen o vlas (have a narrow escape). (various references)

Danish

undslippe med noed og naeppe (to have a narrow escape). (various references)

Dutch

vrijvaren (to have a narrow escape), misvaren (to have a narrow escape), juist misgaan (to have a narrow escape), er rakelings langsgaan (to have a narrow escape), bijna aanvaren (to have a narrow escape). (various references)

Finnish

täpärä pelastus (a narrow escape), hänen oli käydä huonosti (he had a narrow escape, he very nearly came to a sad end), hän pelastui nipin napin (he had a narrow escape), hän pelastui hädintuskin (he escaped by the skin of his teeth, he had a narrow escape). (various references)

French

l'échapper belle (to have a narrow escape), faillir heurter (to have a narrow escape), échapper de justesse (to have a narrow escape). (various references)

German

mit knapper Not davonkommen (to have a narrow escape), missfahren (to have a narrow escape), gerade nicht beruehren (to have a narrow escape), gerade missgehen (to have a narrow escape). (various references)

Greek 

αποφεύγω μόλις τη σύγκρουση (to have a narrow escape). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"� צלות ב� ס. (various references)

Hungarian

hajszálon múló megmenekülés. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"一髪のと�"ろ (close call), 再�"� (playback, rebirth, reclamation, regeneration, regrowth, reincarnation, resuscitation, return to life). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいせい (church and state, Jupiter, playback, rebirth, reclamation, reconditioning, regeneration, regrowth, reincarnation, remanufacture, resuscitation, return to life, second punitive expedition), か�"いっぱつのと�"ろ (close call). (various references)

Pig Latin

arrownay escapeay

Romanian

scãpa ieftin (come off cheap, come off with a small loss, get off light, have a narrow escape, have a narrow squeak), scãpa ca prin urechile acului (escape by the skin of one's teeth, have a narrow escape, have a narrow squeak). (various references)

Spanish

escaparse por un pelo. (various references)

Turkish

ucuz kurtulma (a close shave, let off). (various references)

Ukrainian

чудом уникнути загибелі (have a narrow escape). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: aerospace, canewares, parceners, precensor.

-4 letters: answerer, caneware, caperers, careworn, cesarean, crowners, pancreas, parcener, personae, prancers, prawners, prescore, prewarns, reasoner, recrowns, repowers.

-5 letters: acerose, apnoeas, arenose, canapes, caperer, careens, careers, carpers, caserne, coarsen, coarser, corneae, corneas, corners, cowpeas, creaser, crepons, crowers, crowner, earners, encores, enwraps, escaper, narcose, narrows, necrose, openers, paesano, pawnees, pawners, pawnors.