If you are in a corner, you are surrounded on all sides except one. The image is of something or someone blocking your way out, so if you "got out of a tight corner," you managed to escape whatever bad situation was coming your way.
Kitty corner, which is used in the U.S. to mean diagonally opposite is a corruption of cater-corner. Cater itself is an obsolete word meaning four. Compare the french quatre.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
A Tight Corner was created in 1932.
My understanding, it is the equivalent of the 800 pound gorilla or something very significant being ignored.
Kitty corner, which is used in the U.S. to mean diagonally opposite is a corruption of cater-corner. Cater itself is an obsolete word meaning four. Compare the french quatre.
The duration of A Tight Corner is 2940.0 seconds.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
(to have the) corner officemy little corner of the world(to have someone) backed into a cornercut corners (to do things quickly and not as carefully as you should)(to see something) out of the corner of my eyesjust around the corner (used to say that something is close by)in a tight corner (meaning in a difficult siutation)to have the corner on meaning the advantage or the upper hand, example sentence: The company has the corner on the soybean market.just around the corner meaning to happen soon, example sentence: The holiday season is just around the corner.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
It's not an idiom - to cope means to deal with, or to handle
The idiom means impress someone is egg on
"Old hand" is an idiom meaning having lots of experience.