tight squeeze 的定义
- A difficulty caused by too little time or space, or too little credit or funds. For example, It will be a tight squeeze to get there on time, or I don't know if the sofa will go through the door; it's a tight squeeze, or The company's in a tight squeeze because of poor cash flow. This idiom uses tight in the sense of “too narrow or constricted.” [c. 1900]
tight squeeze 近义词
等同于 near miss
tight squeeze 的近义词 6 个
等同于 pinch
等同于 close call
更多tight squeeze例句
- And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.
- Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.
- Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.
- Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.
- Missy also gets a bit tight-lipped when it comes to her personal life.
- "It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
- His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
- She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.
- It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.
- As long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.