close-run, run sb close, bust-up

It was a close-run thing: the 1,020th anniversary of the advent of Christianity among the Slavs, celebrated with enormous fanfare by Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko, might just as easily have led to a dramatic bust-up between the two institutions whose multiple disagreements have cast a shadow over Orthodox Christian affairs in places ranging from New York to Paris to Beijing.


close-run
adj. - 難解難分的, 不相上下的, 以微弱優勢取勝的

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 接戦
run … close　（競争相手に）迫る, 肉薄する.
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run sb close
to be nearly as good, fast, etc. as someone else:
She got 90%, but Fred ran her close with 87%.

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bust-up Hide phonetics
noun [C] UK INFORMAL
a serious argument, especially one which ends a relationship:
She had a big bust-up with her brother-in-law.