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close quarters

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close quarters [kləʊs]
pl n
1. a narrow cramped space or position
at close quarters
a.  engaged in hand-to-hand combat
b.  in close proximity; very near together
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Noun1.close quarters - a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
site, situation - physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"


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That is to spring to close quarters with an unseen enemy--the strategy of despair!
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
He was, besides, of an active disposition, and had a great antipathy to those close quarters in the castle of Gloucester, for which a justice of peace might possibly give him a billet.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
It was the dead silence of our long gaze at such close quarters that gave the whole horror, huge as it was, its only note of the unnatural.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
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