too close for comfort
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Also, too close to home. Dangerously nearby or accurate, as in That last shot was too close for comfort, or Their attacks on the speaker hit too close to home, and he left in a huff.
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Words nearby too close for comfort
tonus, tony, too, too bad, too big for one's britches, too close for comfort, too close to call, toodle-oo, Tooele, too good to be true, took
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