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English in a Minute: By the Skin of My Teeth
source: VOA Learning English 2017年12月23日
Teeth don't have skin, right?
Originally published at - https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a...
# by the skin of your teeth: (source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/...)
If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it: He escaped from the secret police by the skin of his teeth.