• n.
    ⦿a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
    lexical concept
  • his lying got him into a tight corner

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:box
  2. enl:corner
wn:interlingual indexili:i112727

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelboxcorner