perilously close• I eventually began to suspect that their devotion to organizing things comes perilously close to an obsession.• I was perilously close to being touched once and for all.• In winter the few cars that make it up the mountains skid along the roads, perilously close to ravines.• Are you aware that you're getting perilously close to slander?• The joblessqueue is getting perilously close to the 4mmark.• Twice I ran perilously close to the edge, my eyes dazzled and eyelids drooping.• Lawrence, whose preference for more temperateseasbrings it perilously close to the environs of civilization.• He was a bigbear of a man, well over six feettall and perilously close to three hundred pounds.