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.

Examples of too close for comfort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Apparently, if a Canadian comes too close for comfort to being struck by a private company’s hazardous space junk, they are supposed to just wait until the company tracks them down and then meekly surrender the pieces of garbage that could have killed them. —

Samantha Lawler, Scientific American, 11 July 2024 But there were some contests, even in some of the party’s strongholds, that ended up being too close for comfort. —

Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 5 July 2024 Even by the excessively cozy standards of the U.S. AI sector, this may be too close for comfort. —

Phil Wahba, Fortune, 3 July 2024 Her relationship with her assistant, Simone, seems too close for comfort. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for too close for comfort

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