Sentences with phrase «lucky escape»

The phrase "lucky escape" means narrowly avoiding a dangerous situation or a bad outcome in a fortunate way. Full definition
I am happy we pulled off a last gasp win against Bolton and I was jumping up and down with sheer unadulterated joy as everyone else around me at Anfield but Roy Hodgson should really have taken the chance to show some humility following what was a very lucky escape for the club and indeed his position as manager of the club.
To interpret the Exodus by just «explaining away» God's miraculous intervention is to replace a grand example of God's caring for Israel with a plain old lucky escape, and to replace one of the central formative events of Judaism with an insignificant incident.
Last season's near things against Wigan in the semis and Hull City in the final, as well as the weekend's lucky escape against Reading will have taught them that.
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It's hard to imagine how these portions could compel on screen, but without them there's less sense of sheer endurance, and thus one or two of Katniss's later lucky escapes feel less earned.
The prisoners often joked that their captors were single - minded in the extreme, and Crawford's lucky escape seemed to confirm this view.
I think here of a series of protagonists: Kander & Ebb, two Jewish homosexuals who gleefully pen a new fascist anthem two - thirds of the way through their score for the musical Cabaret; Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden, on whose lucky escape to the musical and sexual underworld of Wiemar the same musical was based; and the French Fumistes without whose radical disdain for order the erotic incoherencies of Wiemar would have never been possible.
Thanks to the vet, he survived this, but he had a very lucky escape - if it had bunched up inside him, it would have killed him.
Wolves were all set to sign midfielder Steve Sidwell until Fulham came in with a last - ditch bid, which may have fallen through — and I believe that should be considered a lucky escape by the Molineux club's supporters.
If Tottenham, who have rested several key players such as Harry Kane, Mousa Dembele and Eric Dier, can get back to White Hart Lane with no further damage, they would have had a lucky escape.
A lucky escape for Arsenal, but Flamini gifted Barca a second when he was caught on his heels and Messi, who tucked away the penalty, pipped him to the ball in the area.
This may be a lucky escape for the Anfield side as it's questionable what the 24 year old Bolton defender has to offer Brendan Rodgers given what he currently has at his disposal by way of central midfielders.
Several drivers lost their lives at the track over the years, and many more had lucky escapes.
Commenting on the lucky escapes by Manchester United, Chelsea and Aston Villa over the weekend and -LSB-...]
Yes, Harry was the People's Choice for manager of England but I think he may have had a lucky escape.
Lucky escape.
The referee, despite being only three metres from the incident failed to spot the foul and Malaga got a lucky escape.
Tottenham has been dreadful in its last two games with a 1 - 1 draw to an awful Southampton side coupled with a lucky escape from the fortress of Rodney Parade with a 1 - 1 draw against Newport County in the FA Cup last weekend.
My son had a lucky escape.
A lucky escape.
What a lucky escape.
Rippel's sherpas had lucky escapes - two returned to base camp five minutes before the avalanche hit, while two were briefly trapped above the avalanche but managed to make their way down, he wrote.
Ed Sheeran had a lucky escape when he got knocked down by a car while out riding his bicycle in London last week, getting away with just a broken...
After the 2nd, only the lucky escape.
(Considering how the film went down, she should think of it as a lucky escape.)
It was a lucky escape.
After a lucky escape, she's spent the last six years trying to rebuild her life, a recovery thanks in large part to her indispensable therapist Dr. Ezra Lerner.
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