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brush with death (LeneiKA) | |||
on the brink of death (Kira-Yufereva) | |||
within an inch of one's life (Yeah, Tim, I gotta say, yah actually were within an inch of your life! == Да, Тим, ты в самом деле был на волоске от смерти!) | |||
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at death's door; by a hairbreadth of death; within a hair's breadth of death; death only a breath away (Дмитрий_Р) | |||
within an inch of life (hora) | |||
within a hair of death; within an ace of death; within an inch of death |
на волоске от смерти: 14 phrases in 3 subjects |
General | 5 |
Informal | 1 |
Makarov | 8 |