Meaning: If you have a narrow escape, you survive a dangerous situation, but only just. For example: He had a narrow escape when he fell off his motorbike. If he’d fallen off a second earlier, he would have been killed by the truck that had just passed by.
| A narrow escape from trouble |
| 12 – 14 years |
| One afternoon my mother requested me to go to the nearby market to buy some vegetables.I jumped on my bicycle and started riding towards the market. On the way an extraordinary thought came to my mind. I released my hands from the handle bars and raised them up in the air. As there was a slope in the road, I really enjoyed flying in the air like a bee. Suddenly, a stray dog sprang onto my bicycle barking fiercely. In a second I jumped from my bicycle. Fortunately I had landed onto some grass and I was happy to find myself without any injury. The frightened dog had run away leaving me. No one was around me. I was weak and could hardly sit up. I got slowly to my feet and staggered to my bicycle. Though I had a narrow escape, my bicycle had been badly damaged. Instead of going to the market, I turned back home pushing my broken bicycle. I was thoroughly warned by my parents and I determined not to do such foolish things ever after. |
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