词汇 | dodge-a-bullet |
释义 | dodge a bulletidiommainly USinformal If you dodge a bullet, you only just manage to avoid something bad, harmful, or unpleasant: We dodged a bullet when the financial crisis hit. The closure is especially difficult for workers who thought they had dodged the redundancy bullet. It's been very stressful, but in the end I think we've dodged a bullet with this deal. Officials breathed a sigh of relief after the storm passed through, saying that the city had dodged a bullet. Nobody was hurt and no one's house was damaged, so we believe that we have dodged a big bullet. Avoiding action abrogate abrogation avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance end-run eschew evader evasion fiddle fiddle around insure shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something sit on your arseidiom steer welch Welsh |
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