a pile of near-misses.

We had one fatality there and a lot of concerns about near misses.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Ponce is known far and wide as a treacherous inlet. There has been a lot of near misses and lot of accidents that go unreported.

Their lives were reduced to a pile of rubble.

I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.