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.
Person 1 - did you see anish giris match against caruana in the candidates?
Person 2 - yeah ,shame he couldnt wit the tournament
Person 1 - he probably will win the next one