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on the grid

on the grid prepositional phrase: in trouble; in strife or difficulties; at a disadvantage.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In trouble; in strife or difficulties; at a disadvantage.
    • North was on the grid! His troubles arose from doubt as to the soundness of the one spade bid by South.1935 March 20, The Daily News, Perth, page 17, column 4
    • "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...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 179

Questions about on the grid

What does on the grid mean?
On the grid means in trouble; in strife or difficulties; at a disadvantage.
What part of speech is on the grid?
On the grid is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the grid in the dictionary

  1. on the front burner
  2. on the front foot
  3. on the full
  4. on the game
  5. on the go
  6. on the grid
  7. on the gridiron
  8. on the gripping hand
  9. on the grog
  10. on the ground
  11. on the half hour

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