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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, ...
Trial of Langhom, 18. His Wife was but aumes ace turned from a devil. 1698.
Vanbrugh, Msop, v. 1. [Routledge, 383]. Reduced within ambs-ace of hanging or
drowning. d 1704. Brown, Worhs, i. 184. I was within an ace of being talked to
death.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley,
1903
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
Actions A21 To be within an Ace 1777 Pennsylvania Evening Post in Newspaper
Extracts (II) 1 .410: 1 was within an ace of taking the whole. 1780 Franklin
Writings 8.106: They were . . . within an Ace of destroying the Bank. 1792
Brackenridge ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting,
1977
She had never forgot that she had been within an ace of losing the game. She
never lost the knowledge she had acquired, that it would have been better never
played. It was quite four years after that troubled return to La Gonesse, that the ...
She is so good and so pretty," said the Count. " I wonder you did not choose her
instead of me." " But she might not have chosen me," and he laughed. " How did
you venture to think I would take you? I was within an ace of saying No." " Really !
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin,
1869
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Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840
Wells has pointed to the war years, especially 1799-1801 (1989: 32), Darvall to
the Luddite year of 1812 (1969), White to the post-war period of 1817-19 (1968),
whilst for E. P. Thompson Britain was 'within an ace of revolution' between 1831 ...
Translator Marian Schwartz breathes new life into Goncharov’s voice in this first translation from the generally recognized definitive edition of the Russian original, and the first as well to attempt to replicate in English Goncharov’s ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary
of Idioms, Second Edition
[Mid-1700s] Also see with bad grace. with half a heart ➧ See half a heart. within ➧
In addition to the idioms beginning with within, also see in (within) reason;
spitting distance, within; wheels within wheels. within an ace of Also, within an
inch of.
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Oxford Dictionary
of English
... use one's best resource: deciding to play her ace, Emily showed the letter to
Vic. within an ace of Brit. very close to: they came within an ace of death. —
ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the 'one' on dice): via Old French from Latin as '
unity, ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
I was within an ace of being talked to death. 1733. North, Lives of Norths (1826),
in. 323. Bating him that ace he wastruly a great man. Ibid., Examen, i. iii. 158. His
Lordship was within Amsace of being put in the plot. 1737. Aquar. Naturalist ...
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A Dictionary
of English Phrases with Illustrative Sentences: ...
Within an ace of = Almost; very nearly, (b) I was within an ace of drowning = I only
just escaped drowning. I came within an ace of getting the situation = I almost got
the situation. The merchant came within an ace of losing his purse, ...
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Oche ace Peter Wright: I'll have the final say one day
PETER WRIGHT has vowed to bust his final hoodoo and claim a major title success soon. Snakebite came within an ace of landing his first-ever World Series ... «Scottish Daily Record, Cze 15»
Boquete on Frankfurt and Tyresö memories - News - UEFA.com
A year on from coming within an ace of final victory with Tyresö FF, Verónica Boquete has a second chance as her new club 1. FFC Frankfurt travel to Bristol ... «UEFA.com, Mar 15»
Steven Adams would have made world of difference for New …
... the Tall Blacks came within an ace of another huge World Cup upset in Spain. ... The name Steven Adams shines like a beacon in New Zealand hoops, but ... «Stuff.co.nz, Gru 14»
Brazil data sends sugar prices close to 4-year low
Sugar prices tumbled to within an ace of a four-year low after output of the sweetener from Brazil's main producing region was shown extending an August ... «Agrimoney.com, Wrz 14»