to come within an ace of …
                        
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                        to be within an ace of …
                        
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                        to be saved from wreck
                        
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                        to break free from an influence
                        
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                        to straddle an issue
                        
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                        to rid oneself of an employee
                        
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                        to outgrow a prejudice
                        
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                        to get away early from a reception
                        
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                        to get rid of a responsibility
                        
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                        to iron something out
                        
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                        to contract oneself out of an obligation
                        
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                        to contract oneself out of an obligation
                        
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                        to throw off a burden
                        
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                        to disencumber oneself of a load
                        
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                        to rid oneself of an obligation
                        
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                        to do away with someone
                        
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                        to give someone the slip
                        
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                        to miss doing something
                        
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                        to see the last of something
                        
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                        to get out of something
                        
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                        to come through something
                        
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                        to come out of something
                        
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                        to work something off
                        
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                        to do away with something
                        
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                        to come through something
                        
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                        to get quit of one's debts
                        
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                        to free oneself from debt
                        
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                        to walk away without a scratch
                        
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                        to get off with a fine
                        
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                        to outrun punishment
                        
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                        to escape punishment
                        
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                        to emerge from poverty
                        
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                        to be saved from shipwreck
                        
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                        to cease to be under disability
                        
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                        to wriggle oneself out of a difficulty
                        
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                        to get out of difficulties
                        
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                        to discharge an attachment
                        
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                        to cheat the gallows
                        
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                        to cast off the fetters of business
                        
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                        to wring out wet clothes
                        
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                        to run for one's life
                        
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                        to walk away from sb
                        
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                        to escape death by a fraction of an inch
                        
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                        to escape death by a narrow margin
                        
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                        to work off a complex
                        
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                        to cast aside your fears
                        
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                        to shake off a bad habit
                        
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                        to get out of one's financial difficulties
                        
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                        to pull the chestnuts out of the fire
                        
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                        to escape death by narrow margin
                        
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                        to narrowly escape death
                        
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                        to be let off with a fine
                        
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                        to get off with a fine
                        
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                        to be let off with a fine
                        
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                        to get rid of one's money
                        
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                        to recover from the effects of a war
                        
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                        to throw off a troublesome acquaintance
                        
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                        to get out of a tight hole
                        
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                        to be exonerated from liability
                        
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                        to contract oneself out of obligations
                        
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                        to contract oneself out of obligation
                        
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                        to be clear of suspicion
                        
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                        to cast aside your doubts
                        
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                        to lighten the commitments
                        
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                        to free oneself from one's commitments
                        
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                        to throw off one's pursuers
                        
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                        to escape from earth
                        
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                        to save oneself trouble
                        
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                        to get off without a loss
                        
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                        to cut the gordian knot
                        
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                        to cut the gordian knot
                        
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                        to whip the devil round the stump
                        
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                        to seek relief from one's responsibility
                        
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