Meanings
- In trouble; in strife or difficulties; at a disadvantage.
North was on the grid! His troubles arose from doubt as to the soundness of the one spade bid by South.
1935 March 20, The Daily News, Perth, page 17, column 41 more example
"I never had such a damned unsettled and unsettling affair with a woman. I don't know where the hell I am between what I know you are and what you refuse to be. It's bloody, the way a woman can sustain a situation like this when she knows she's got a man on the grid. Rita, for Heaven's sake stop being a bitch."
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 179
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