Multiple choice general knowledge foreign languages

"I got to the station a few minutes late and missed the train by the skin of the teeth." Skin of the teeth implies

  1. just manage to do something but that almost failed

  2. exagerate a story

  3. has got nothing to do with

  4. a fuss made about an insignificant matter
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Explanation

'By the skin of one's teeth' means to barely succeed or escape by an extremely narrow margin. The phrase likely comes from the biblical Book of Job, referring to something so thin it's barely there. When someone misses something 'by the skin of their teeth,' they came extremely close to achieving it but failed at the last possible moment.

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