Significados de narrow shave en inglés

They had a very narrow shave down at Runton, by the by.

But it was a terribly narrow shave, so to speak.

They walked along, neither disposed to talk after this narrow shave from a quarrel.

Never again!-we'llstick on it all day rather than have such a narrow shave.

We had a narrow shave of it last time.

He had a narrow shave of it.

Warned by this narrow shave he played back next time, and seemed to himself to have missed a really good chance.

I have had a narrow shave, Peterson, and it is mere luck you didn't find me on your doorstep in the morning.

During the halt Moberly had a narrow shave, a bullet passing between his left hand and thigh, as he was standing superintending the firing.

Petrie," he said, yet again, with his fingers straying gently over the surface of his throat, "that was a narrow shave- adamnednarrow shave!"

'A narrow shave, friend,' quoth Reuben, with his hand to his cheek.

As it was, we had several very narrow shaves, and more than once stood in danger of colliding.

"A narrow shave of saying Vespers tonight with the devils in Hell!"

"Your comrades are at the foot of the mountain.- Anarrowshave, O'Brien!"

"Your son has had a very narrow shave of it, sir."

"It was a narrow shave all right," was the comment.