Glossary entry (derived from question below)
polski term or phrase:
otrzeć się o śmierć się; ocierać się o śmierć
angielski translation:
have a brush/scrape with death; come within an inch of death
polski term
otrzec sie o smierc
| 4 +5 | have a brush with death |
Darius Saczuk
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| 3 | to have a close call with death |
geopiet
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Nov 2, 2011 19:57: Darius Saczuk changed "Field (specific)" from "Poezja i literatura" to "Idiomy/powiedzenia/przysłowia"
Nov 11, 2011 17:18: Darius Saczuk changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1492604">Kalinoszka's</a> old entry - "otrzec sie o smierc"" to ""have a brush with death""
Nov 11, 2011 17:21: Darius Saczuk changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/719042">Darius Saczuk's</a> old entry - "otrzec sie o smierc"" to ""have a brush/scrape with death""
Nov 17, 2011 03:48: Darius Saczuk changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/719042">Darius Saczuk's</a> old entry - "otrzeć się o śmierć się; ocierać się o śmierć "" to ""have a brush/scrape with death""
Nov 22, 2011 03:39: Darius Saczuk changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/719042">Darius Saczuk's</a> old entry - "otrzeć się o śmierć się; ocierać się o śmierć "" to ""have a brush/scrape with death; come an inch within of death""
Proposed translations
USA
The Slanguage Buff
Native in: polski (Variant: Standard-Poland) 
, angielski (Variant: US)
Works in: polski > angielski, hiszpański > angielski, angielski, and 5 more.
have a brush with death
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Lub: APOCALYPSE
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Links
Chris Licht learns from a brush with death - Jun. 13, 2011
money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/magazines/fortune/chris.../index.htm
Jun 13, 2011 –
Chris Licht, vice president of programming at CBS News, suffered a brain aneurysm last year and lived to write about it in ...
PhotoBlog - A brush with death
photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/.../5115159-a-brush-with-death
Sep 16, 2010 – This is an incredible sequence of images of a plane crash during an air show captured by photographer Rob Yuill. In an interview with the Daily...
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A Death Experience | Peter Rengel
peterrengel.com/articles/a-death-experience/
In 1977, I had a brush with Death that transformed my orientation toward Life. While hitchhiking from California to Michigan late one night in the steep mountains ...
In December 2004, Beijing-born Jet Li and his family had a brush with death as they were in a Maldives hotel which was flooded during the tsunami that swept ...
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Books by Genre: SUSPENSE & THRILLERS books - Hachette Book Group USA
www.hachettebookgroup.com/genre.aspx?genreID=53&page=3
Mortal: By Ted Dekker , Tosca Lee: Centuries have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced...
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petrolhead
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Dzięki bardzo, petrolhead. :-)
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aachenac PhD (X)
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Dzięki bardzo, aachenac. :-)
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Polangmar
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Dzięki bardzo, Polangmar. :-)
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Beata Claridge
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Dzięki bardzo, Bubz. :-)
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Iwona Szymaniak
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Gracias, Iwona. :-)
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