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Idioms and Phrases

see under in a bind .
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Example Sentences

In “The Crucified Priest,” the wife of a master carver and her cleric paramour are caught on a tight spot.

The natural instinct is to seek some sort of swing mechanism that can get them out of a tight spot in the labor market.

If there should be a tight spot between these two gears it will react disadvantageously on the magneto.

They might be in a tight spot but she had confidence that the angular, capable cowboy would be able to pull them through.

One of mine was something I had said about Lyndon a long time ago—that he's a good man in a tight spot.

"Well Squire, that is a pretty tight spot, that's sartin," said Guthrie.

He fought himself every waking hour, knowing that he had a weakness of becoming confused in a tight spot.

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