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Close quarters   /kloʊs kwˈɔrtərz/   Listen
Close quarters

noun
1.
A situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something.





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"Close quarters" Quotes from Famous Books



... mooning." She looked up at him again, this time at close quarters. It was a quick, bright flash ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead
... of money, doctor; and you really shall, you must." And poor Lady Scatcherd, in her anxiety to acquit herself at any rate of any pecuniary debt to the doctor, came to personal close quarters with him, with the view of forcing the note into ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... impossible. So much so that it is perfectly certain that he who goes back from Christ has never really seen himself or Christ either. He may have seen something somewhat more or less like Christ, but, all the time, it was not Christ. Let your soul once come up to close quarters with Christ, and I defy you ever to forget Him again. Tell all your new beginners that from me, Samuel Rutherford, who, after all, am ...
— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte
... half grouch. When they were in the house Celia and Irene, the daughter and the granddaughter of Dona Violante, kept bickering at all hours; perhaps this continuous state of irritation derived from the close quarters in which they lived; perhaps so much passing as sisters in the eyes of others had convinced them that they really were, so that they quarrelled and ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... of heroism decided the victory. The Swiss rushed into the gap made by Winkelried, and, having now come to close quarters with their enemies, their bodily strength and the lightness of their equipment gave them a great advantage over the heavily armed Austrians, who were already fainting under the heat of a July sun. The very closeness of the array of the Austrian men-at-arms rendered them incapable ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various


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