albatross »
Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
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beat out »
To win by a narrow margin.
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blind »
A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
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by the skin of one's teeth »
Barely; closely; by a narrow margin; with nothing to spare.
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come to »
To regard or specify, as narrowing a field of choices by category.
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dodge a bullet »
To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury or disaster.
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edge out »
To win in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.
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home in on »
To focus or narrow down to something; to find or draw closer, as by trial and error or a gradual seeking process.
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narrow down »
Make more specific.
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near miss »
narrowly avoided accident
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on the straight and narrow »
Honest; proceeding according to rules and plans.
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pin tuck »
narrow ornamental fold
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punch bowl waterfall »
A plunging waterfall descending from a narrow stream into a pool.
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straight out of the chute »
Something done immediately, or "from the beginning". Taken from rodeo routine: the bucking bronco, or bull, or the calf for the calf-roping contest is kept in a narrow pen, a chute, until it is released and dashes out to its fate.
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zero in on »
To successfully narrow down a search.
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