narrow escape

narrow escape  {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!
Categories: noun
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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