Illustration: A home baker carries a tall celebration cake through the low doorway between a Japanese apartment's kitchen and dining room. The highest sugar decoration passes just beneath the upper frame, leaving a visibly tiny gap.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

すれすれ

suresure

almost touching, very close

Example sentences

飛行機ひこうきは管制塔かんせいとうの上うえをすれすれに飛とんだ。
The plane buzzed the control tower.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
飛行機ひこうきは墜落ついらくする前まえに地面じめんすれすれに飛とんだ。
The airplane skimmed the ground before it crashed.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
舟屋ふなやは伊根湾いねわんの海面かいめんすれすれに建築けんちくされている。
A funaya house is built close to the sea surface of the Ine-wan bay.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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