narrow squeak
near squeak

It would be a narrow squeak even if everything broke his way.

He was the person who had the narrow squeak.

Beloved, we've come through so many narrow squeaks together that I'm not ever going to worry again.

Well, we made it; but it was a narrow squeak.

It was a narrow squeak, narrower perhaps than a scared world guessed.

"I had one narrow squeak, in the month I was there.

We have of course had a bunch of narrow squeaks but that is inevitable.

Mrs. Carpenter, now, had a narrow squeak of being arrested for murder.

Moments later, the prince murmured in relief, "A narrow squeak!

Even so, it was a narrow squeak.

"Well, that was a narrow squeak for you," said one of the firemen, glad to breathe without a mask on.

They had had some narrow squeaks with Hazleton's plans before.

"You sure had a narrow squeak," said Spike.

"Narrow squeak for the Government," he said.

Even Skinny resorted to fancy footwork and I had three narrow squeaks.

We've had a couple of narrow squeaks, Maurice.'

But she'd pulled through some narrow squeaks."

He had a narrow squeak, that one.'

'Oh, that was all right,' said Tom, 'but we had a narrow squeak last night.

Oh, what a narrow squeak!

"That was a narrow squeak," said Jo.

The only thing is that I'd trust Baxter sooner than I would those two fellows, and he certainly had a narrow squeak at the fire.

"A narrow squeak for you, Irene!"

Last night's big Welfare Reform Bill vote in the Lords was a narrow squeak for the government.

But it had been a narrow squeak, a damned narrow squeak.

His voice slid up the scale to a near squeak.

"You've had a pretty near squeak of being locked up in a police cell."

This pooch has had a' near squeak - we have only seven minutes to restore blood supply to the brain.

"Oh yassssus," the captain cried, her voice rising to a near squeak.

'Twas a near squeak."

The very day after that, in the southern bight of Tahiti, we had a near squeak, the wind suddenly coming calm; the reefs were close in with, my eye!

Sometimes he had a precious near squeak, and Avington, who was going off his head at the time, tried to pot him--shot a gillie in the leg too.