narrow escape

[narrow escape] {n. phr.}

An escape by a very small margin; a near miss.

* /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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