The phrase 'a dodged bullet' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used metaphorically to describe a lucky escape from some kind of difficult situation or danger. For example: "By closing the failing business, we managed to dodge a bullet."
But a dodged bullet is still a bullet.
"This was absolutely a dodged bullet," Professor Pinter said.
Then along comes this team, one spooked by demolitions against India and Pakistan, and whose cancelled tour of Bangladesh last October increasingly looks like a dodged bullet.
(There have been a few others involving being caught in the middle of a police chase, a near-drowning, and a dodged bullet during a drive-by).
Early Monday morning, the emergency operations team for the Army Corps of Engineers had been cheered by what appeared to be a dodged bullet: Hurricane Gustav had weakened significantly and did not seem to be packing the kind of storm surge that would overwhelm the city's incomplete hurricane protection system.
There are a few concessions, but many more dodged bullets for the industry.
San Jose, bolstered by the continued saves and the dodged bullets began counterattacking and, almost like a movie script, tore apart the stunned Galaxy defense for three unanswered goals; two of those goals in stoppage time.
Looking back on exes can be like looking back on dodged bullets, least of all because your ex's family lived on a different planet, and your only thought around them was "I need to leave".
The East Coast native dodged bullets while serving in Vietnam.
The dodged bullets of the sixties and seventies found their target in 2000.
Mr Prot's explanation for these dodged bullets is not his habit of reflection, or luck, but "professional management".
