Synonyms for tight spot
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for tight spot Other synonyms for the word tight spot
- awkward situation
- bar
- between a rock and a hard place
- bind
- blockade
- box
- brake
- catch
- Catch-22
- clog
- clutch
- contingency
- corner
- crimp
- crisis
- cropper
- curb
- difficulty
- dilemma
- discomfiture
- disorder
- distress
- drag
- embarrassment
- emergency
- exigency
- fix
- hamper
- hardship
- hole
- hot water
- impasse
- inconvenience
- jam
- juncture
- knot
- mess
- necessity
- no-win situation
- nuisance
- obstacle
- obstruction
- oppression
- pass
- pickle
- plight
- predicament
- pressure
- problem
- puzzler
- quandary
- scrape
- spot
- sticky situation
- sticky wicket
- strait
- stress
- stumbling block
- the rub
- tight situation
- tight spot
- tight squeeze
- trouble
- turning point
- zero hour
Définition of tight spot
- As in pickle : noun sticky situation
- As in pinch : noun predicament
- As in scrape : noun bad or embarrassing situation
- As in snag : noun complication in situation
- As in bind : noun predicament
- As in difficult situation : noun touchy situation
- As in corner : noun predicament
- Of course, in my story, I invented a force-field——very handy when you're in a tight spot!
- Extract from : « Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 » by Ray Bradbury
- If there should be a tight spot between these two gears it will react disadvantageously on the magneto.
- Extract from : « Aviation Engines » by Victor Wilfred Pag
- Baker was well aware he was in a tight spot, and one which he had deliberately created.
- Extract from : « The Great Gray Plague » by Raymond F. Jones
- The pilots also spoke a good word for Jane, 171but she knew she was in a tight spot.
- Extract from : « Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines » by Ruthe S. Wheeler
- More than once, his enormous size and legendary strength had gotten them out of a tight spot.
- Extract from : « The Pirates of Shan » by Harold Leland Goodwin
- A quiet voice brought him back from wild rage to a cool realization that he was in a tight spot.
- Extract from : « Slim Evans and his Horse Lightning » by Graham M. Dean
- He fought himself every waking hour, knowing that he had a weakness of becoming confused in a tight spot.
- Extract from : « Human Error » by Raymond F. Jones
- The time tew pray is not when we are in a tight spot, but jist as soon as we git out ov it.
- Extract from : « Josh Billings on Ice » by Henry Wheeler Shaw
- They might be in a tight spot but she had confidence that the angular, capable cowboy would be able to pull them through.
- Extract from : « Janet Hardy in Radio City » by Ruthe S. Wheeler
- One of mine was something I had said about Lyndon a long time ago—that he's a good man in a tight spot.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Antonyms for tight spot
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