up a close

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English

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Etymology

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From close (“dead-end street”).

Prepositional phrase

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up a close

  1. (Scotland, informal, archaic) Synonym of up a tree (“in a difficult situation”)

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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