NARROW ESCAPE
narrow escape: translation
{n. phr.} An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. * /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/- narrow escape—с трудом лостигнутая цель спасение от опасности удавшееся едваевда...Англо-русский дополнительный словарь