A · 7 answers · 10mo

What comes to mind if I say "It's a near miss"?

sounds like if just one thing went differently or wrong it would’ve been a complete miss.

I don't know, it's just a turn of phrase, if we started digging into the grammar/structure of every turn of phrase, well that's a fool's errand... also it's actually correct - miss is the subject... this sentence explicitly states it was a miss, near isn't even truly necessary here, it functions as an adjective/modifier for miss: a miss that was near, the objects missed, but were near each other, thank you for coming to my TED talk

George Carlin. I think he was the one who pointed out that a near miss is a dumb saying because it would have to literally mean a hit.

Somebody threw a decent-sized rock at the bus I was on recently. Luckily they didn't aim at my head.

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