within ames ace

prepositional phrase

Nearly, very near.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. UKidiomaticobsoleteNearly, 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

Origin

See ambsace.

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