within ames ace
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See ambsace.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]within ames ace
- (obsolete, British, idiomatic) Nearly, very near.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax:
- […] The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him, […] .