within ames ace

prep_phrase

within ames ace

prep_phrase

Etymology See ambsace.

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UK, Idiomatic, Obsolete Nearly, very near.

[…]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,[…].1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax:

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