yup, makes sense. I was just walking and that same conclusion came to me...except I was thinking along the lines of like...hitting a pole with your car. If you missed the pole, you would say "I nearly hit that pole". And I guess if you hit the hole, you would say "I nearly missed that pole".

Lol, except when I say "I nearly missed that pole", it sounds to me as though I missed the pole...but just barely.

Who knows...guess there's better things to use my thinking on.