"alle strette" meaning in Italian

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        "1": "at the tight spots"
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      "expansion": "“at the tight spots”",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "at the tight spots"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “at the tight spots”",
      "name": "lit"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "à l'étroit"
      },
      "expansion": "French à l’étroit",
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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “at the tight spots”. Compare French à l’étroit.",
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    {
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        "1": "it",
        "2": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "alle strette",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I was irritated that Sarkozy and Cameron had jammed me on the issue, in part to solve their domestic political problems...\n(literally, “I was irritated that Sarkozy and Cameron had put me in a tight spot, in part to resolve their internal political problems...”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Ero irritato che Sarkozy e Cameron mi avessero messo alle strette, in parte per risolvere i loro problemi politici interni...",
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      ],
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        "in a tight spot; with one's back to the wall"
      ],
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        [
          "tight spot",
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          "one's back to the wall",
          "one's back to the wall"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "a mal partito"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alle strette"
}

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        "1": "at the tight spots"
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      "expansion": "“at the tight spots”",
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      "args": {
        "1": "at the tight spots"
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      "expansion": "Literally, “at the tight spots”",
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    },
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        "2": "à l'étroit"
      },
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    {
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      },
      "expansion": "alle strette",
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  ],
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          "english": "I was irritated that Sarkozy and Cameron had jammed me on the issue, in part to solve their domestic political problems...\n(literally, “I was irritated that Sarkozy and Cameron had put me in a tight spot, in part to resolve their internal political problems...”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Ero irritato che Sarkozy e Cameron mi avessero messo alle strette, in parte per risolvere i loro problemi politici interni...",
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      ],
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        "in a tight spot; with one's back to the wall"
      ],
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          "one's back to the wall",
          "one's back to the wall"
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        {
          "word": "a mal partito"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alle strette"
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