just barely, just squeaking by / close to the point of grazing, whistling past, skimming

being by a thin margin / grazing by

victory / triumph / success

a male given name

to win; to achieve victory

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

winner

(idiomatic) win, gain a victory