close quarters

1. 1.

   a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something

   Broadersite

   plural

Questions about close quarters

What does close quarters mean?

close quarters means "a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something".

Is close quarters a common word?

close quarters is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.