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.
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.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
Nothing. You may be thinking of "a close shave," which means a narrow escape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1). A close escape, or near death expierence.2). In reference to Sweeney Todd, a barber who gave his customers a 'close shave' and were then sent to Mrs.Lovett to be made into delicious meat pies.
The duration of A Close Shave is 1800.0 seconds.
A Close Shave was created on 1995-12-24.
It's not an idiom, it's a description. Go look in a mirror and close your mouth and you'll see what it means. It's someone who isn't talking.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
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Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.