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tight as a tick
Idioms and Phrases
Drunk, as in She was tight as a tick after just one glass of wine . This expression alludes to a tick engorged with the blood of the animals it feeds on. [ Slang ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Hunt said the election is “as tight as a tick.”
It should be no surprise that what once looked like a Democratic landslide now appears, as my friend Dan Rather might say, “as tight as a tick.”
His friends, maybe only half-joking, describe Carter as “tight as a tick.”
“The Iowa Republican caucuses are tight as a tick entering the final two weeks of the campaign,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Warren was making her second visit to the state in two months because Udall’s reelection race against Republican Cory Gardner is what Dan Rather used to call “tight as a tick.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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