close quarters
Noun
  1. plural form of close quarter
  2. Very near proximity.
    They were fighting at close quarters.
    Four-to-a-room is living in close quarters.
    • 1880, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (translator), The Brothers Karamazov,
      One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible.



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