"thisclose" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A presentation of the phrase \"this close\" that intentionally omits the space between the words to demonstrate the degree of closeness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "thisclose (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Bob Stohl, TV guide: Volume 3, page 27:",
          "text": "JUDY GARLAND was thisclose to signing an exclusive TV contract with NBC, but the deal fell through.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 December 17, CMJ New Music Report, volume 69, number 743, page 10:",
          "text": "Sources indicate that Danzig is thisclose to signing a new label deal.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings: A Novel, page 80:",
          "text": "Bridget is the only one at school who knows that I came thisclose to letting Marcus Flutie devirginize me last New Year's Eve.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Toni McGee Causey, Charmed and Dangerous, page 268:",
          "text": "He knew he was thisclose to cuffing Bobbie Faye. Thisclose to keeping her from getting killed in the inevitable cross fire he sensed was coming; he felt it all the way to the cellular level of his bones.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, J. R. Ward, Blood Kiss, page 35:",
          "text": "If her father knew she was thisclose to a male like that?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "This close; extremely close."
      ],
      "id": "en-thisclose-en-adj-RkFuR899",
      "links": [
        [
          "This close",
          "this close"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, nonstandard) This close; extremely close."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "nonstandard",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thisclose"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A presentation of the phrase \"this close\" that intentionally omits the space between the words to demonstrate the degree of closeness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "thisclose (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Bob Stohl, TV guide: Volume 3, page 27:",
          "text": "JUDY GARLAND was thisclose to signing an exclusive TV contract with NBC, but the deal fell through.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 December 17, CMJ New Music Report, volume 69, number 743, page 10:",
          "text": "Sources indicate that Danzig is thisclose to signing a new label deal.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings: A Novel, page 80:",
          "text": "Bridget is the only one at school who knows that I came thisclose to letting Marcus Flutie devirginize me last New Year's Eve.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Toni McGee Causey, Charmed and Dangerous, page 268:",
          "text": "He knew he was thisclose to cuffing Bobbie Faye. Thisclose to keeping her from getting killed in the inevitable cross fire he sensed was coming; he felt it all the way to the cellular level of his bones.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, J. R. Ward, Blood Kiss, page 35:",
          "text": "If her father knew she was thisclose to a male like that?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "This close; extremely close."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "This close",
          "this close"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, nonstandard) This close; extremely close."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "nonstandard",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thisclose"
}