live to tell the tale

to still be alive after a dangerous or frightening experience I should imagine very few people have fallen from that height and lived to tell the tale. I had dinner with her and lived to tell the tale.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lucia	loo-CHEE-ah (Italian), LOO-tsee-ah (German), LOO-shə (English), loo-SEE-ə (English)	Italian, German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovak, Ancient Roman
Tabea	tah-BE-ah	German
Abednego	ə-BED-ni-go (English)	Biblical
Sunngifu	-	Anglo-Saxon
Kalani	-	Hawaiian
Kaveh	-	Persian, Persian Mythology