within ames ace

English

Etymology

See ambsace.

Prepositional phrase

within ames ace

(obsolete, Britain, idiomatic) Nearly, very near.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 17, in The Unknown Ajax:
  […] The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him, […] .

References

1811, Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue

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