| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| To do something “by the skin of one’s teeth” is to just manage to get it accomplished: “I never thought we’d get the magazine to the printer by the deadline, but we made it by the skin of our teeth.” | 1 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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