By the Skin of My Teeth

#####By the Skin of My Teeth

Welcome to english in a minute! Okay,we all know what teeth are.

But i didn’t know that my teeth had skin.

BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH

It was funny running into you yesterday.

Sorry i had to rush off.

But i was running late

For a movie i wanted to see.

Oh! Did you make it to the movie on time? I made it by the skni of my teeth.

Just as i sat down ,the movie started.

” By the skin of my teeth” Means to narrowly or barely escape somthing bad.

Many english expressions

Come from the bible, Or christian holy book.

In the bible, a character escapes an evil test.

In one version,it says that he

“escaped with the skin of my teeth.” And that’s english in a minute!