Dodging a narrow bullet

[Marc Sacks]

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?

Marc Sacks
msacks at theworld.com

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