From the Japanese Gitaigo
word girigiri. Pronounced geeree-geeree.
"By the
skin of your teeth" "really close call" "a sticky
situation" "Just made it" "Just barely" All these expressions describe the meaning of giri-giri.
I was walking down the street and the car
drove by so close to me it was giri-giri.
We
packed the
elevator so full it was giri-giri.