Sentences with phrase «skin of one's teeth»

And even that was skin of our teeth squeaky bum time at the end of the season.

always skin of the teeth margins... always maximum stress....

It's horrible situation after horrible situation and skin of your teeth escape (or not).

Johnston was most recently seen on the stage in Central Park in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of Skin of Our Teeth, opposite John Goodman.

Skin of their teeth?!

As per usual, he finds a way and, by the skin of his teeth saves the day.

«So,» he said, «Ellis died, and you escaped only by the skin of your teeth.

«I rode it through and just barely, by the skin of our teeth, we got through it,» Clark says.

Republicans passed a significant test on their newly unveiled tax reform legislation Thursday — by the skin of their teeth.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

Aided by a strong flow of orders, Buschman pulled the company through by the skin of his teeth, getting the hoped - for tax extension and stretching other accounts payable.

At last year's AGM, the Company missed a first strike by the skin of its teeth with 24.68 % of poll votes against the remuneration report proposal.

That is over 250 million Americans living by the skin of their teeth, waiting anxiously for their next paycheck to arrive and act as a lifeline until the next one.

It was then only in my late teens, when I scraped into Oxford by the skin of my teeth, the more I was studying theology, the more I thought: «This is what I want to do; I'll spend my life studying the Bible and teaching people about it.»

Whew, by the skin of our teeth — by one seat in the Senate — America avoided the fate of becoming a banana republic.

When some calamity is narrowly averted, I escape «with the skin of my teeth.»

However, eleven years later we are still going... by the skin of our teeth... when out of the blue we are approached by a company offering us a proposal to buy land that we couldn't refuse.

Girolamo Savonarola, the fiery Dominican preacher who was burned at the stake in 1498, barely made it into the RCS commentary series by the skin of his teeth.

Reading w no stress, AFC expected to win, Reading playing physical, this match was not won by the skin of any teeth, they frustrated us at times but we over powered them.

They now have also dropped three straight games and are hanging onto the # 9 spot by the skin of their teeth in this week's Power Rankings.

The weasel with the Rogue blonde streak in his hair stole the title from Brock Lesnar by cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania and has been surviving by the skin of his teeth ever since.

In 2015 Arsenal only just pinched second place in the League by the skin of their teeth when Tottenham collapsed in the final games of the campaign, but Spurs got their revenge in style last season when they made sure of their second - place finish and ended 11 points ahead of a very disappointing Gunners side, that failed to even make the Champions League.

Although we haven't finished below them since the Ox was a babe in arms, the fact is we only made it last season by the skin of our teeth.

The Americans also lost a pair of group - stage games to Puerto Rico and Lithuania, advancing by the skin of their teeth.

Or Real conceding 4 at home to Schalke and hanging on by the skin of their teeth.

In the wake of another win by the skin of their teeth, Tottenham have shown that not only are they capable of winning through a bad streak of games, but, doing so without big name players such as Gareth Bale and Michael Dawson.

Arsene and Arsenel to scrape through by the skin of their teeth into a UCL spot so Kroenke can yell «ye hah» and buy himself a new ranch and keep Wenger in the job so that he can deliver zero for another 3 years?

Cleveland won the Finals by the skin of its teeth with LeBron and Kyrie just eking out enough points.

Indeed, Liverpool have been living by the skin of their teeth through the first few months of the season.

Even if United score an own goal and we win by the skin of our teeth, the problem will remain in the long term.

We were lucky to hold on by the skin of our teeth against QPR after sending off West ham could have been a totaly different story but overall a great game scheza commanding his penalty area.He owned it.

Detroit is threatening to run away with the NFC North, and won again by the skin of their teeth.

And where have these options been when we struggle to score goals, often hanging on dangerously by the skin of our teeth for a narrow win?

Having only stayed in the Premier League by the skin of their teeth last time round, it will take a monumental effort from the Dutchman to stop them from being dragged in to another relegation fight.

2014 was an untidy game with little confidence which we got through by the skin of our teeth with the extra quality just coming through in the end, and pure relief was the main emotion at the end.

How it unfolded: We will get out of the CL group stage through the skin of our teeth and in the round of 16 we will get drawn with Bayern Munich or Barcelona or Real Madrid and end up getting hammered in the first leg.

The Irish may have only got through by the skin of their teeth and be strong favourites to go out today, with three days fewer than the hosts to rest and prepare, but their fans are definitely firm favourites thanks to the friendly party atmosphere that follows them around.

This weekend we play host to Everton, where a win will push us up to 75 points, and should Liverpool fail to beat an already - relegated Middlesbrough side, we would qualify for the Champions League by the skins of our teeth.

Side 2: We narrowly won by the skin of our teeth.

Wenger on the other hand, how many games have we been controlling in the first half to lose all momentum in the second and scrape by the skin of our teeth.

We are just hanging on the skin of our teeth every game.

I know that Arsenal fans will be disappointed if the Gunners finish in fourth place in the Premier League again, but maybe we should be a bit more grateful for the fact that Arsene Wenger has always kept us in that Champions League spot, even though it has been by the skin of our teeth at times.

Arsene survived the CL group stages by the skin of his teeth and was top on New Year.

History, our records for getting knocked out at this stage by the skin of our teeth.

Team McNichols hangs onto the # 1 spot this week, but only by the skin of their teeth.