by the skin of (one's) teeth

Barely. Often used to describe something that almost didn't happen. Oh man, my car wouldn't start this morning—I just made it here by the skin of my teeth!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tilde	-	Danish
&Thorn;Iudreiks	-	Ancient Germanic
Vilhelmi	VEEL-hel-mee	Finnish
Saqui	-	Native American, Mapuche
Lihi	-	Hebrew
Herberto	er-BER-to (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese