Several revolts marred his reign, including one in Media, which was rather close to home.
If that sounds rather close to Mr Bush's policy, that's because it is.
It was a joke but, in context, was rather close to the bone.
That phrase — "the occasional price of a noble but risky profession" — struck rather close to home.
This would, I believe, be well beyond ethical and rather close to saintly.
Still, the Review Group comes rather close to acknowledging privacy rights of foreigners.
Yet these imaginative masks lack openings for the eyes, nose and mouth, making them appear rather close to bondage gear.
Actually, Fuller came rather close to a major success in 1933, the year before his mother died.
One critic – rather close to home – went further, declaring that Mawer has created "the female James Bond".
In the end, I have a rich sauce with a flavour rather close to the farmyard, but not uneatable.
Indeed, for all his vaunted atheism, he brushes rather close to traditional religious preachments: the solace of sex is as nothing compared with the transports of love.
