a close alley; close quarters

I'm the squire from Buckskin Township, an' I rather think I married that old lady with red cheeks to an oldish man in a butternut suit, drivin' a span of grays to a green wagon full of house plunder, an' with two red cows tied behind.

We're walking along the Way now.

Our model is formally similar to the asymmetron scenario recently introduced in application to cosmology, though here we are interested in consequences for neutron stars and thus consider a mass term that does not modify the geometry on cosmological scales.