"alle strette" meaning in Italian

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        "2": "à l'étroit"
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          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:",
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        {
          "word": "a mal partito"
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  "word": "alle strette"
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        {
          "word": "a mal partito"
        }
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  "word": "alle strette"
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