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Jaws of death

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  1. 1
    A very narrowly avoided, or close to, fatal situation. figuratively, plural, plural-only, poetic

    ""And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him.""

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