"on the grid" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1935 March 20, The Daily News, Perth, page 17, column 4:",
          "text": "North was on the grid! His troubles arose from doubt as to the soundness of the one spade bid by South.",
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          "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 179:",
          "text": "\"I never had such a damned unsettled and unsettling affair with a woman. I don't know where the hell I am between what I know you are and what you refuse to be. It's bloody, the way a woman can sustain a situation like this when she knows she's got a man on the grid. Rita, for Heaven's sake stop being a bitch.\"",
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        "In trouble; in strife or difficulties; at a disadvantage."
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  "word": "on the grid"
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          "ref": "1935 March 20, The Daily News, Perth, page 17, column 4:",
          "text": "North was on the grid! His troubles arose from doubt as to the soundness of the one spade bid by South.",
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          "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 179:",
          "text": "\"I never had such a damned unsettled and unsettling affair with a woman. I don't know where the hell I am between what I know you are and what you refuse to be. It's bloody, the way a woman can sustain a situation like this when she knows she's got a man on the grid. Rita, for Heaven's sake stop being a bitch.\"",
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