close quarters

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close quarters - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Close-fights \Close"-fights`\, n. pl. (Naut.)
     Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a
     vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an
     enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

close quarters - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  close quarters
      n 1: a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or
           something