Examples of 'skin of our teeth' in a sentence

Meaning of "skin of our teeth"

This phrase is an idiom used to describe a situation in which someone narrowly avoids failure or disaster by a very small margin. It suggests that the person or thing barely managed to succeed or survive

How to use "skin of our teeth" in a sentence

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skin of our teeth
We are all hanging on by the skin of our teeth.
By the skin of our teeth.
We were always hanging on by the skin of our teeth.
By the skin of our teeth we scrape through the encounter.
We got through by the skin of our teeth.
Skin of our teeth.
Made it just by the skin of our teeth.
Nope . Skin of our teeth.
We escaped an environmental disaster by the skin of our teeth.
Yes, by the skin of our teeth.
We narrowly escaped getting walloped by the skin of our teeth.
Just by the skin of our teeth ♪.
But we escaped a black day for democracy by the skin of our teeth.
We won by the skin of our teeth.
There were great disorders after his death, but no more skin of our teeth.

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If just by the skin of our teeth.
Think we are all pretty much prepped for tomorrow, just by the skin of our teeth.
We contained it by the skin of our teeth.
No-one realised better than Delacroix that we got through by the skin of our teeth.
We made it by the skin of our teeth.
Two years later he starred in a revival of The Skin of Our Teeth.
We did it by the skin of our teeth.
We got out of there and but just by the skin of our teeth.
We all got around by the skin of our teeth.
But At the time, we were hanging on by the skin of our teeth.
We are all just hanging on by the skin of our teeth here.
No thanks to you. Maguire and me got out by the skin of our teeth.
We just won the award by the skin of our teeth.
Miraculously, Hise and I dodged the tracers by the skin of our teeth.
You are here . By the skin of our teeth.
Anyway, he got very cross with me because I would not do Skin of our Teeth.
Example document, The skin of our teeth.
Comment: We've escaped a global recession - but only by the skin of our teeth.
Looks like we made it by the skin of our teeth bros.
At the age of 17, Almagor debuted in Habima 's production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
We're getting by by the skin of our teeth.
We have to be real, we've scabbed it by the skin of our teeth.
I mean, we made it by the skin of our teeth.
Maguire and me got out by the skin of our teeth.
Luckily, we made it by the skin of our teeth.
We made it tonight, by the skin of our teeth.
We've survived relegation by the skin of our teeth.
Dude, we just escaped by the skin of our teeth.
Thank you, we pulled it off by the skin of our teeth.
I know . Maguire and me got out by the skin of our teeth.
And we were right -- by the skin of our teeth.
Nozomi: Made it by the skin of our teeth.
Thornton Wilder 's The skin of our teeth.

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