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Idiom
A close call.
Something that is close to danger or an accident.
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Jiwon Lim, a JPMorgan Chase economist also based in Seoul, is sticking with a forecast for a rate increase this week but said it "now becomes a close call" after the recent run of weak economic data.
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All except South Korea are expected to remain on hold, and even the economists forecasting a Bank of Korea rate increase acknowledge that it has become a close call.
He throws incredible fastballs, he gets himself into potholes that turn into minefields, he becomes fragile if a close call goes against him, he falters and then he whispers about what went awry.
Memory becomes selective after a close call.
Although he professed total disbelief in God and was virulently anti-bourgeois, there was something priestly about him, and Georges Brassens, the doyen of the bards who was later to become a close friend, called him Abbé Brel.
In an already ailing America, a close call would become a wake-up call of epic proportions perhaps sufficient to rattle the status quo.
Amanda had become a close friend, but still called me by my formal title.
The man now angling to become England's full-time manager is willing to admit it was a close call.
"You have a close call.
"This was a close call".
It was a close call.
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