死里逃生

死里逃生 [sǐ lǐ táo shēng]

1. ■ take [get] a new [fresh] lease of life; barely escape with one's life; bear [have; lead] a charmed life; be saved from death; be snatched from the jaws of death; be [have] a close shave; escape by the skin of one's teeth; escape death; escape death in an almost miraculous manner; have a hairbreadth escape; have a lucky [narrow] escape from death; miss death by a hair's breadth; narrowly escape death:

我父亲在这次车祸中死里逃生。 My father had a narrow squeak in the automobile accident.