bearly made it
What Davy Crockett claimed to have done when he yelled his name at a charging wide-open-mouthed bruin, causing said ferocious hairy beast to be so frightened dat it just fell down and died.
After discovering dat Brer Rabbit's "laughin' place" was actually nothing but a nest of "bumbly-bees", Brer Fox and his huge lumbering "not exactly broke out wif brains" partner-in-crime felt like they "bearly made it out alive" after said angry buzz-bugs majorly swarmed them in response to their having naively shoved their unsuspecting heads straight into said striped stingers' nest-hole.