Usually means: Barely avoided danger or failure.
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  1. narrow escape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. narrow escape: Merriam-Webster
  3. narrow escape: Vocabulary.com
  4. narrow escape: Wiktionary
  5. narrow escape: Dictionary.com
  6. narrow escape: Rhymezone
  7. narrow escape: FreeDictionary.org
  8. narrow escape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. narrow escape: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. narrow escape: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (narrow escape)

noun:  A situation in which some danger or unfortunate circumstance is only just avoided.

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