I am also sure that their sympathy is not the undermining, political kind, but the simple sympathy one feels for anyone in a tight spot.
Say you don't have the extra cash, you're going through a tight spot, or ask them to buy the tickets and owe them the money instead.
The Malaysian textile industry is in a tight spot and falling behind the other textile manufacturing countries in the region such as Cambodia, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Rospars, who had taken a leave from Blue State, was in a tight spot.
Losing my wallet put me in a tight spot.
