dodge a bullet
verb/dɔd͡ʒ ə ˈbʊl.ɪt/US
Definitions
To have a narrow escape
To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury, disaster, or some other undesirable situation.
- "We have all these thousands of bill payers trying to dodge a bullet, trying to shift costs and pay less."
- Haiti dodged a bullet when Tropical Storm Tomas, once a hurricane, did minimal damage to the country's earthquake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince.
- By finding and fixing my aneurysm before it ruptured, I had miraculously dodged a bullet.
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