too close for comfort
idiom
variants
or less commonly too near for comfort
: close enough to make a person feel nervous, worried, or upset
That bus came a little too close for comfort!
When we went out for drinks together, I realized we were getting too close for comfort.
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However, a dispute about the future of the facility with its owner and a land developer results in a murders that hit too close for comfort, so the group of true-crime investigators — who dub themselves the Thursday Murder Club — spring into action.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In a video, part of the brand's new YouTube series, Walkies, Pattison, 37, could be seen letting a dog get a little too close for comfort.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Thankfully, neither of those things happened to me or anybody in my group, but a couple of times were too close for comfort.
—Brent Rose, Outside Online, 24 July 2025
Consider that Handmaid’s Tale won big in its very first season and is going out very quietly in its sixth, which might indicate that voters indeed are looking for fresh blood — or this particular series’ vision of a dystopian future has just gotten too close for comfort to our current reality.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 July 2025
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
In a video, part of the brand's new YouTube series, Walkies, Pattison, 37, could be seen letting a dog get a little too close for comfort.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Thankfully, neither of those things happened to me or anybody in my group, but a couple of times were too close for comfort.
—Brent Rose, Outside Online, 24 July 2025
Consider that Handmaid’s Tale won big in its very first season and is going out very quietly in its sixth, which might indicate that voters indeed are looking for fresh blood — or this particular series’ vision of a dystopian future has just gotten too close for comfort to our current reality.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 July 2025
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“Too close for comfort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/too%20close%20for%20comfort. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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