Idiom
dodge a bullet
Meaning
To have a narrow escape; to avoid injury, disaster, or some other undesirable situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I missed the bus, but I dodged a bullet because it crashed.”
“I almost took that job, but I dodged a bullet when I heard the company went bankrupt.”
“By deciding not to invest in the volatile market last month, he realized he had dodged a bullet when the entire sector collapsed overnight.”
Examples
simple
“I missed the bus, but I dodged a bullet because it crashed.”
contextual
“I almost took that job, but I dodged a bullet when I heard the company went bankrupt.”
complex
“By deciding not to invest in the volatile market last month, he realized he had dodged a bullet when the entire sector collapsed overnight.”
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