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English
Noun
jaws of death pl (plural only)
- (poetic, figuratively, cliche) A very narrowly avoided, or close to, fatal situation.
1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:"And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him."
Translations
A narrowly avoided fatal situation