up a close

English

Etymology

From close (“dead-end street”).

Prepositional phrase

up a close

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

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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