25 Jun
2018
25 Jun
'18
8:12 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:52 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
It's probably a reference to shaving.
When I think of {tey} in the "be uncomfortably close" sense, the metaphorical imagery I think of is something like a car in a car chase making it around a turn at high speed but losing some paint on a guardrail. Or, less excitingly, managing to get a sofa out of the living room but scraping up the wall on the way out. Success, but just barely. The metaphor "a close shave" for a narrow escape is based on similar imagery; avoiding some hazard by such a small margin that it takes off some of my hair.