He's damn close to being held hostage.
"If we win at all it's going to be damn close - like 25 votes."
He peered through the glamour of the pictures which were damn close to getting the better of his eyes.
When you thought of it, it was damn close to murder.
But Maddie's breathing told him that she was damn close to ecstasy.
When he adjusted in his chair he gave Banau a look so sociable it was damn close to fawning, for him.
You're damn close to the wall, yourself.
"We had nothing to send; in fact, we were damn close to starving here," Ian explained.
What she told the police was damn close to a confession.