THESAURUS
tight squeeze
bind, broken fortune, close call, close shave, close squeak, closeness, clutch, complication, confinement, crowdedness, crunch, cubby, cubbyhole, difficulties, distress, doghouse, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how-do-you-do, genteel poverty, hair, hairbreadth, hairbreadth escape, hairsbreadth, hard pinch, hardship, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, insolvency, jam, light purse, limitation, mess, mix, morass, narrow escape, narrow gauge, narrow means, narrow squeak, narrowness, near go, near miss, near thing, nearness, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pigeonhole, pinch, playhouse, plight, poorness, poverty, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksand, restrictedness, restriction, scrape, slender means, slenderness, slough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straitened circumstances, straitness, straits, strictness, swamp, tight spot, tightness, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, unprosperousness, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty
