the jaws of death / defeat / despair etc

the jaws of death / defeat / despair etc literarya situation in which something unpleasant almost happens死亡边缘/胜负关头/绝望边缘等:•She had saved him from the jaws of death.她把他从鬼门关救了回来。

• double-concave lens
• by free gift
• stumpages
• run up an account
• subcontraoctave
• fill in for
• self-pride
• bouncers
• have one's innings
• take a view of
• physiatricss
• fulminuric acid
• developing country
• Angles
• bigotry
• cornball
• appellation
• steel foil
• mercaptans
• centaurea
• prep.py
• computerphones
• monomeric
• science park
• access charge
• air volcano
• sarcolemmas
• on the decrease
• tantalite
• cellulose ether
• sew pillows under people's elbows
• bend oneself to
• discordantly
• consumer advocate
• Columbine
• Carangidae
• phenol poisoning
• sb's word is law
• ask the question
• verdigrisy
• momisms
• emp.
• infeasibleness
• film over
• over against sth
• germinal mutation
• Lacerta
• sleep-outs
• pallodium chloride
• talk something out
• dubitatively
• at one's elbow
• neon lamp
• Grecism
• technihadron
• heliograph
• mineral right
• immusical
• investment banking
• stick it on
• gravity station
• double truck
• live for
• Mevacor
• befuddling
• divert sth from
• highjackers
• bisulfates
• offcasts
• T-bone steak
• semidwarf
• convergence thesis
• root climbers
• ebonized
• relative movement
• clear for action
• hark back to
• gigahertzs
• mummiform
• ship's husband
• ZZ Ceti star
• dibranchiate
• marine traffic
• bottom up
• have one's boots laced
• displeasing
• know by
• spokes
• Lancang River
• postal clerks
• code dependence
• boil with rage
• wardenship
• optical tracking
• joking apart
• now and again
• centraliser
• get one's breath back
• will-lessness
• schlockier