Discussion
Despite the market crash, she managed to save her business by the skin of her teeth.
Answer: C
By the skin of her teeth means just barely.
To do something by the skin of one's teeth is to succeed or escape by the narrowest possible margin, with almost nothing to spare. The phrase comes from the Book of Job. In the sentence, she saved her business during the crash, but only narrowly.
'Very easily' is the opposite of the idiom's meaning. 'With a lot of financial help' and 'by cheating' explain how something might be done, but the idiom says nothing about the means, only about how close the outcome was.
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