tight corner

collocation in English

meaningsoftightandcorner

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tight
adjective
adverb
uk
/taɪt/us
/taɪt/
(held or kept together) firmly ...
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corner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɔː.nər/us
/ˈkɔːr.nɚ/
the point, area, or line that is formed by the meeting of two lines, surfaces, ...
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(Definition oftightandcornerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftight corner

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There probably never will be one because they have got themselves into a verytightcornernow.
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My mining friends are among the staunchest and most loyal of people in the community, particularly when they find themselves in atightcorner.
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I suspect that the time may well come when everytightcornerwill be a designated area.
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It was more a case of someone in atightcornertrying to counter-attack.
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It was the best bargain that could be made in a verytightcorner.
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He must realise that the old tax card, always a solid friend in atightcorner, is not quite as effective as it once was.
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The owner of the neighbouring colliery knows that the other fellow is in atightcorner.
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The working-class has always to give something, in order to get the country round atightcorner.
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We are in a verytightcorner.
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I am eager to say something in support of my noble friend, as he has helped me so much in the past in a verytightcornerin that place.
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He is in atightcorner.
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How was our hero going to explain away thistightcornerand the fact that, having frozen the price, he had to unfreeze it a month later?
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It is driven into atightcorner.
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They are no longer carrying them for fun or only as a threat, but are carrying them and using them to get out of atightcorner.
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If we behave like that to a country when we are in atightcornerwe cannot really complain if she does not hasten to our assistance.
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His way of escaping a problem is to find something funny to do or say or sometimes to get himself out of atightcorner.
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Adiseshiah was in atightcorner.
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It has been equipped with a 'floating head' which is designed to get the machine into tight corners.
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Been in many atightcorner.
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He gets into a car and places the slinky on the car's dashboard, but it falls out the window as the car turns atightcorner.
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