What is Nine Line Bind?
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An oilfield term that means you are in a predicament or one heck of a situation. Literally, it refers to the block on a drilling rig. The more lines on the block, the more weight you can lift. If you get in a bind with nine lines on the block, there's not much more you can do.
When she ran off and left me with the kids, she put me in a nine line bind.
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once one of the greatest indie rock bands to emerge from the jawbreaker era, now simply reduced to hackneyed poor-me pop/piano crap.
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