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Cheating death?

And if Grim Reaper gets wind of your death, for example, and comes to fetch your soul only to find that you’re still alive and kicking, then we might happily say that you’ve literally cheated death.

That is, you’ve escaped from the clutches of death itself. Well done.

Figuratively speaking, therefore, from any extremely dangerous situation where the risk of death is great, we say someone has cheated death if they escape unscathed.

Here are media examples:

1. Six passengers who cheated death in a plane plunge in Lake Manyara on Thursday yesterday hailed their “hero pilot” for the miraculous escape.

Narrating the chilling mid-air ordeal when all the engines of the Tanzan Air plane suddenly stopped working, the survivors revealed how they prayed to God to save their lives.

“We cried to God to spare our lives and then a chilling silence descended on us as the aircraft was hurtling down at high speed,” said Anic Kashasha from her hospital bed in Arusha.

She said the pilot, identified only as Kondo, struggled to avoid land and aimed at the water to minimize what would have been a disastrous impact.

A prominent Dar es Salaam lawyer Protas Ishengoma, a member of the IMMA Advocates outfit, said all the engines ceased at 16,000 feet above sea level. He was seated in the cockpit with the pilot when the unthinkable events begun to unfold.

“I saw first-hand how the pilot struggled to steer the plane from imminent disaster after losing power. He told us he would aim for the water and that decision kept death at bay,” Ishengoma explained.