This means to narrowly avoid something bad, such as an accident.
The image is of you shaving your face and cutting very close to the skin - almost cutting yourself.
I like a man with a close shave.
a close shave
It means a narrow escape; a close call. or It means a narrow escape from danger. It can mean something bad almost happened, but didn't, like a car driving past you very close, but not hitting you. A close shave in itself could be one that you got things very smooth, but didn't cut yourself.
That was close! I haven't had a close shave like that in years. We are very close to getting an answer from the information technologies department. Please close the door to the clothes closet before you leave.
The one-word slang terms may be squeaker or cliffhanger (a perilous movie situation). The usual phrases include a narrow escape, a close shave, or a white-knuckle experience.
The abstract noun form for the verb to shave is the gerund, shaving, a word for an activity.
No, women in England like to go more natural. Yes we do shave.
He has a very close shave.
With Burma-Shave, you will always get a close shave. My latest brush with death was a real close shave. Some people like to have a close shave on the top of their head.
Nothing. You may be thinking of "a close shave," which means a narrow escape.
That was a close shave! Let's just shave a bit off of the top for now.
It should be a close shave. Picture someone shaving their hair very close to the skin. This idiom means that you escaped something bad by a very small margin - as small as the width of a hair.
The duration of A Close Shave is 1800.0 seconds.
A Close Shave was created on 1995-12-24.
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Doing anything "by a hair" means that you barely manage it. If you win by a hair, you win only by the margin as wide as a hair is. If you lose by a hair, you almost won. You can also have a "close shave," which is an idiom meaning that you escaped something bad by a hair's width.
It means a narrow escape; a close call. or It means a narrow escape from danger. It can mean something bad almost happened, but didn't, like a car driving past you very close, but not hitting you. A close shave in itself could be one that you got things very smooth, but didn't cut yourself.
Tom will shave his face.
The Close Shave - 1920 was released on: USA: 2 February 1920