虎口余生

虎口余生 [hǔ kǒu yú shēng]

1. ■ （比喻经历极大的危险，侥幸保全生命） escape very narrowly; be snatched from the jaws of death; barely escape with one's life; barely escaping with one's life, as from the tiger's mouth; be lucky to have escaped death; be saved from the tiger's mouth; escape from the tiger's jaws; get out of the jaws of death; have a hairbreadth [narrow] escape; return from the tiger's lair