Tight squeeze
A difficulty caused by too little time or space, or too little credit or funds. For example, It will be a tight squeeze to get there on time, or I don’t know if the sofa will go through the door; it’s a tight squeeze, or The company’s in a tight squeeze because of poor cash flow. This idiom uses tight in the sense of “too narrow or constricted.” [ c. 1900 ]
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