by the skin of your teeth

Significado

1. if you do sth by the skin of your teeth, you only just manage to do it

De la misma entrada

• get under skin
• have got under your skin
• it's no skin off my, your, his, nose
• make your skin crawl
• skin and bone
• jump out of your skin
• save your skin
• a thick skin
• a thin skin
• keep your eyes peeled
• there's more than one way to skin a cat
• skin up