close quarters
Noun
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Noun
- plural form of close quarter
- 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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