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Meanings of narrow squeak in English

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Usage of narrow squeak in English
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As it happened, Oswald had a very narrow squeak indeed that night.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
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Denis Healey remained deputy leader by a narrow squeak over Tony Benn.
The new yorker
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I guess you've heard what a narrow squeak he had with me.
The War Terror
4
And then I tell you we'd have had a narrow squeak.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
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Gad, he's had a narrow squeak for it, I'll be bound.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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It was a narrow squeak; but I had a narrower one some days before.
The Christian: A Story
7
He had a kind of narrow squeak this last time.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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They ought to have left before, when we had that narrow squeak from foundering.
Youth, a Narrative
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We had a narrow squeak of it, Tony, and were blown some distance up.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
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Well, sir, here we are after a mighty narrow squeak.
Victory: An Island Tale
11
Like as not 'twill be a narrow squeak with us if we tackle him.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
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This narrow squeak has made me come over all faint.
Right Ho, Jeeves
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We had a narrow squeak, didn't we, from the niggers?
Yorke The Adventurer
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I don't think you're mortally hurt, though you've had a narrow squeak for it.
Adventures in Africa / By an African Trader
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My heaven, man, it was a narrow squeak you had!
Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68.
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Oh, my friends, you have had an all-fired narrow squeak.
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
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