By the skin of one's teeth
Barely and by the skin of one's teeth are semantically related in only just topic. In some cases you can use "Barely" instead an adverb phrase "By the skin of one's teeth".
Barely
Barely adverb - By a very small margin.
By the skin of one's teeth and barely are semantically related in hardly topic. You can use "By the skin of one's teeth" instead an adverb "Barely".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nearly and by the skin of one's teeth
- nearly and barely
- just and by the skin of one's teeth
- just and barely
- hardly and by the skin of one's teeth
- hardly and barely
- only and by the skin of one's teeth
- only and barely
- closely and by the skin of one's teeth
- closely and barely
- scarcely and by the skin of one's teeth
- scarcely and barely
- narrowly and by the skin of one's teeth
- narrowly and barely
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