词汇 | be too close for comfort |
释义 | Idiom be too close for comfort to make people worried or frightened by being too close in distance or too similar in amount.Those lions were much too close for comfort.The party will have to work hard to improve its image - the last election result was too close for comfort. too close for comfort1. So close as to cause worry because of being dangerous or unwelcome in some way. The way these planes fly so low over the house is just too close for comfort. My neighbors and I all feel that the new shopping center they're planning near our neighborhood is a little too close for comfort. 2. Too narrow a margin for error or deviation. Having only $20 in your bank account is far too close for comfort, if you ask me. too close for comfortCliché [for a misfortune or a threat] to be dangerously close. That car nearly hit me! That was too close for comfort. When I was in the hospital, I nearly died from pneumonia. Believe me, that was too close for comfort. too close for comfortAlso, too close to home. Dangerously nearby or accurate, as in That last shot was too close for comfort, or Their attacks on the speaker hit too close to home, and he left in a huff. too close for comfortdangerously or uncomfortably near.too — for comfortcausing physical or mental unease by an excess of the specified quality. 1994 Janice Galloway Foreign Parts They were all too at peace with themselves, too untroubled for comfort. too close for ˈcomfortso near that you become afraid or anxious: The exams are getting a bit too close for comfort. |
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