Dodging a narrow bullet

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:14 PM -0400 7/30/07, Marc Sacks wrote:
>I found this interesting note in an email from a website called
>audiooddities:
>
>Internet Radio in the United States dodged a very narrow bullet yesterday
>when
>SoundExchange, the thuggish lobbying arm if the Recording Industry
>Association of America, backed off on demands which would have virtually
>silenced this exciting and original kind of Radio due to the imposition of
>a fee schedule which was roundly, and rightly, criticized as excessive and
>unfair.
>
>I would think a narrow bullet would be the easiest kind to dodge. Probably
>the writer meant "narrowly dodge a bullet." Is there a name for this sort
>of mixup? Is it very common?
>
I think of it as the "cocked an inquisitive eyebrow" construction but
I'm sure it has a more official name.  "Adverbial [or Modifer]
displacement" is accurate but too general.

LH

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