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Meaning of "perilously close"
The phrase 'perilously close' describes a situation where something or someone is dangerously or uncomfortably near to a potentially harmful or risky outcome. It implies a state of imminent danger or proximity to a negative consequence, suggesting that caution or action is required to avoid or mitigate the potential harm or undesirable outcome
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Son that sounds perilously close to being bullshit.
Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
We are perilously close to such a situation right now.
You and john came perilously close.
Sofia is perilously close to claiming our garden.
It is riddled with politicians leaning perilously close to openly fascist views.
It comes perilously close to negotiating with terrorists.
That plywood cab office looks perilously close to the track.
They are perilously close to winning the war.
This freeze rapidly put the firm perilously close to collapse.
You are perilously close to violating the election charter.
There are open paraffin fires and children darting perilously close.
You are treading perilously close to blasphemy.
Perilously close to exciting.
The situation was perilously close to an explosion.
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Any naturalist out in the field has watched something go extinct or come perilously close.
But you are already perilously close to being out of a job.
May is not quite at that point - but perilously close.
That sounds perilously close to blackmail.
To say that they are not baptisms pushes us perilously close to Donatism.
It has migrated perilously close to its sun at a mere.
He invented planetsaving technology in record time, which we are perilously close to losing.
And grow perilously close to earth.
The Georgian-Abkhaz peace process has come perilously close to a standstill.
It comes perilously close to naturalizing the oppression of women.
Their attitude toward the Ark came perilously close to idol worship.
You are perilously close to contempt.
Weeks said some of the US-led rescue missions came perilously close.
She felt perilously close to cracking.
There was one in particular, fleeter than his fellows, who was perilously close.
It is a trick that comes perilously close to magical thinking.
Us perilously close to disaster.
You could say that I am always swinging perilously close to one extreme or another.
Role comes perilously close to dyig of frostbite ad humiliates a rescue team with sowballs.
In the next two days the Russians came perilously close to breaking into East Prussia.
We came perilously close to a wet T-shirt competition.
George 's first discovery is perilously close to the crater.
The election was perilously close in part because Paquette also had competition from a disaffected Democrat.
The short-tailed albatross came perilously close to extinction.
They were perilously close to the edge of the canyon.
Proponents of " fighting fire with fire " come perilously close at times to arguing.
You are perilously close to heresy.
Unable to secure himself a good display patch, this male is perilously close to a blowhole.
Your arm is coming perilously close to the window control.
But she 's getting dangerously close to the truth-and perilously close to his heart.
You are perilously close.
A desperate combat ensued, with Confederate assaults driving the Federals perilously close to the river.
And one male gets perilously close to the baby.
Perilously close to Wales now . Perilously close.
But not before they came perilously close to being overrun and wiped out.
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