a near thing

a ˌnear ˈthinga situation in which you are successful, but which could also have ended badly侥幸做成的事Phew! That was a near thing! It could have been a disaster.哎呀！好险哪！差一点儿出事。We won in the end but it was a near thing.我们最后赢了，但比分很近。

• siskin
• error box
• whiplash injury
• cast/set sb adrift
• Milstein, Nathan
• BPE
• Sulidae
• woodborers
• oncest
• only so much
• crowd sb/sth in
• free products
• overtures
• palynomorphs
• dry grinding
• cyclamates
• altaics
• go in and out
• essentials
• extenuating circumstances
• Grecianize, grecized
• what's her / your etc game?
• musk duck
• EDB
• mamma's darling
• soliloquizings
• baculite
• trumpet call
• gambler
• bedmates
• you can't win them all
• Five-year Plan
• inerasible
• spring upon
• huggingly
• orchiditis
• margravial
• skyhigh balloon
• aversion therapies
• collodion process
• reversal of dip
• Anqing
• quake like an aspen leaf
• irreproducible
• endogamic
• grand tours
• backslaps
• bloating
• beekeeping
• somesthetics
• numnahs
• rubstone
• petrous
• methyl ethyl ketones
• Karaites
• oneness
• catoptromancy
• biological oxidation
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• specifyings
• turn sb out (of/from sth)
• worse off
• congratulating
• blackener
• bromine
• praxiological
• caponette
• cytomorphology
• bottom dollar
• cold turkeys
• petrophysicists
• countercurrently
• circuit breakers
• diamond dust
• cutinized
• buttonhooks
• rng
• ants
• benzyl cinnamate
• Salicaceous
• going strong
• pusillanimity
• love lives
• Goertler parameter
• Henze, Hans Werner
• cold type
• bob up
• bullmia
• make a porridge
• pheneticist
• Compton
• predate
• flings
• compassless
• ground control
• madreporians
• Macrouridae
• economic potential for war
• immolation
• help sb up