Possible Clues:

• Close shave
• Close call
• Narrow escape
• Even the short-sighted could see it was dangerous
• Close shave for the guardian angel perhaps
• Close call for new starter making electrical connection
• What 15 isn't in a narrow escape
• Close call when the gin ran out
• Finding, after abandoning university, a close shave
• Narrow escape from northern land in Greenland's capital