A close shave from an object at hand? (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
near thing
'a close shave' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'an object at hand?' is the wordplay.
'an object' becomes 'N' (N is an example).
'at hand?' becomes 'earthing' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'n'+'earthing'='NEAR THING'
'from' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for near thing that I've seen before include "Narrow escape, close shave" , "dangerous" , "Lucky escape" , "almost a disaster" , "Narrow escape, missed by a small margin (4.5)" .)