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in a tight spot
adjective as in behind the eight ball
Example Sentences
Another crab keeper, Mary Akers, once witnessed a crab stuck in a tight spot chirping until a friend came to rescue it.
It all has the Lakers in a tight spot, the team needing to be aggressive and, perhaps, even overpay to give James the best possible shot at another deep playoff run.
“President Sheinbaum is in a tight spot,” said Tony Payan, who heads the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
If her benefits were taken away, Amy says she’d be left “in a tight spot”, although she would be “open to any experiences really because it will all help”.
The U.S. economy is in a tight spot, where the hope is that it remains strong enough to stay out of a recession but not so strong that it worsens the already stalled progress on inflation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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