a heartbeat away

a heartbeat away from very close to; on the verge of 近在咫尺： laughter was only a heartbeat from tears. 哭笑之间, 咫尺而已。

• resurrection plant
• Quasimodo
• sandwich technique
• back pressure
• two-winged fly
• katalyzed
• one for the books
• appleknocker
• chabasites
• ankyrins
• lend itself to
• chub package
• run for
• iowans
• to the dregs
• beat about the bush
• Combes
• jussive
• matey
• quadplex
• close liver
• jaggery
• nonperformer
• shield factor
• pterygoid
• sugarbush
• contend with sth/sb
• thalamencephalic
• in the trenches
• sought
• two-way street
• jump up
• paginates
• chippered
• handbrace
• decagons
• mare liberum
• edgewise
• combustible shale
• exhaustive search
• paschal lamb
• texass
• merohedrism
• backwardnesses
• lint artist
• (just) think
• depolymerise
• wash one's dirty linen at home
• photoengravers
• reactionarism
• talk a good game
• what/where/who the blazes…?
• nationalisation
• scientific researches
• substandard propagation
• floating grid
• pedal gland
• associative law
• outsizes
• pejoratively
• American smoke tree
• mycovirus
• international salute
• yauds
• -gated
• Socialist International
• Tell el Amarna
• Grecian knots
• complement fixations
• trickishly
• studdingsails
• go-go music
• flirt with
• nosemas
• Myrdal, Alva
• get rocks in the head
• provincialised
• dressing-down
• sea service
• to advantage
• testosterone propionate
• set / put sb straight
• Saint Austin's (或 Augustine's) summer
• Septembrists
• attoseconds
• oppugnancy
• Diplogasteroides
• wave mechanics
• pamprodactylism
• intranasally
• gravestones
• fill one's shoes
• set something up
• basifiers
• anacoustic
• become prize of someone
• letter of attorney
• common ground
• capote
• dwell on/upon