<P> Skin of my teeth (Hebrew: ע֣וֹר שִׁנָּֽי ‎' ō - wr šin - nāy) is a phrase from the Bible . In Job 19: 20, the King James Version of the Bible says, "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth ." In the Geneva Bible, the phrase is rendered as "I have escaped with the skinne of my tethe ." </P> <P> In modern times, "by the skin of my teeth" is used to describe a situation from which one barely managed to escape . </P>

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