By the skin of one's teeth
Scarcely and by the skin of one's teeth are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scarcely" instead an adverb phrase "By the skin of one's teeth".
Scarcely
Scarcely adverb - By a very small margin.
By the skin of one's teeth and scarcely are semantically related. You can use "By the skin of one's teeth" instead an adverb "Scarcely".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nearly and by the skin of one's teeth
- nearly and scarcely
- just and by the skin of one's teeth
- just and scarcely
- barely and by the skin of one's teeth
- barely and scarcely
- hardly and by the skin of one's teeth
- hardly and scarcely
- only and by the skin of one's teeth
- only and scarcely
- closely and by the skin of one's teeth
- closely and scarcely
- narrowly and by the skin of one's teeth
- narrowly and scarcely
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Scarcely and By the skin of one's teeth. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/by_the_skin_of_one_s_teeth/scarcely
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