What does 'just too close' mean?
My favorites were Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I'd read the first most recently, so I started into Sense and Sensibility, only to remember after I began chapter three that the hero of the story happened to be named Edward. Angrily, I turned to Mansfield Park, but the hero of that piece was named Edmund, and that was just too close. Weren't there any other names available in the late eighteenth century?
It means . . and that was just too close (ie too similar) to be a coincidence.
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It means . . . and that was just too close (ie too similar) to be a coincidence.
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eg Tom and Mary must have cheated in the exam. Their answers were just too close.