Portuguese Meaning of by the skin of one's teeth
por um triz
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Definitions and Meaning of by the skin of one's teeth in English
by the skin of one's teeth
so deeply penetrative as to irritate, stimulate, provoke thought, or otherwise excite, a usually unmounted specimen of a vertebrate (as in a museum), censure, castigate, shinny, bottle entry 1 sense 1b, a membranous film or scum (as on boiling milk or drying paint), the life or physical well-being of a person, cheat entry 1 sense 1, fleece, by a very narrow margin, to climb up or down, an outer covering or surface layer, bottle sense 1b, the 2-layered covering of the body consisting of an outer ectodermal epidermis that is more or less cornified and penetrated by the openings of sweat and sebaceous glands and an inner mesodermal dermis that is composed largely of connective tissue and is richly supplied with blood vessels and nerves, the external limiting tissue layer of an animal body, to strip of money or property, an outer covering (such as a rind or husk) of a fruit or seed, the usually tough and flexible outer layer of an animal body that in vertebrates is made up of two layers including an inner dermis and an outer epidermis, to cut or scrape the skin of, devoted to showing nudes, the pelt of an animal prepared for use as a trimming or in a garment compare hide entry 2, to defeat badly, to pass or get by with little room to spare, to cover or become covered with or as if with skin, the 2-layered covering of a vertebrate body consisting of an outer epidermis and an inner dermis, the hide or pelt of a game or domestic animal, a sheet of parchment or vellum made from a hide, to strip, scrape, or rub off an outer covering (such as the skin or rind) of, to strip, scrape, or rub off the skin of, the integument of an animal (such as a fur-bearing mammal or a bird) separated from the body usually with its hair or feathers, to strip or peel off, to become covered with or as if with skin, to urge on and direct the course of (a draft animal), beneath apparent or surface differences, a sheathing or casing forming the outside surface of a structure (such as a ship or airplane), to cut, chip, or damage the surface of, to heal over with skin, a sheet of parchment or fine-grained leather made from a hide, to cover with or as if with skin, the outer layer of an animal when separated from the body usually with its hair or feathers, to pass or get by with scant room to spare
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por um triz
so deeply penetrative as to irritate, stimulate, provoke thought, or otherwise excite, a usually unmounted specimen of a vertebrate (as in a museum), censure, c
mal,apenas,quase,dificilmente,marginal,mais ou menos,por pouco,quase,raramente,Um pouco
consideravelmente,facilmente,bastante,significativamente,substancialmente,bem,completamente,definitivamente,completamente,muito
by the by => a propósito, by one's own bootstraps => por seus próprios meios, by means of => por meio de, by leaps and bounds => a largos passos, by half => pela metade,
