All 4 Uses of
strait
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- The short boy had gained a great advantage over the tall boy, who was reduced to mortal strait, and both were overlooked by a large heavy man, perched against the corner of a table, who emphatically adjured them to strike a little more fire out of the swords, and they couldn't fail to bring the house down, on the very first night.
Chpt 22strait = bad situation
- …of the two, and the aptitude with which they accommodated themselves to the pewter-pot; in explanation of which seeming marvel it may be here observed, that gentlemen who, like Messrs Pyke and Pluck, live upon their wits (or not so much, perhaps, upon the presence of their own wits as upon the absence of wits in other people) are occasionally reduced to very narrow shifts and straits, and are at such periods accustomed to regale themselves in a very simple and primitive manner.†
Chpt 27 *
- It is observable that when people upon the stage are in any strait involving the very last extremity of weakness and exhaustion, they invariably perform feats of strength requiring great ingenuity and muscular power.
Chpt 48strait = difficult situation
- Miss Bray has wealthy friends who would coin their very hearts to save her in such a strait as this.
Chpt 53 *strait = bad or difficult situation
Definitions:
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(strait as in: put her in a tough strait) a bad or difficult situation
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water