"Tight as a tick" nghĩa là gì?

"Tight as a tick" -> nghĩa là say xỉn; rất gần nhau, sát nút.

Ví dụ

“He needs to pick up his game some,” said former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a Biden ally, calling on Biden’s campaign to intensify (tăng cường) in-person canvassing (cuộc vận động bầu cử). Hunt said the election is “as tight as a tick.”

After Big Joe Turner, the next person I saw at the Big Rec was Jimmy Reed. His performance had a profound effect on me. I had never heard a group that had Jimmy Reed’s band’s feel. There was a mysterious chemistry between the drummer, bassist, and guitarist. They were playing behind the beat—almost dragging—but it was still tight as a tick and hypnotizing (thôi miên). Ya couldn’t help but fall under the spell of that feel. A few years later, in 1957, you’d hear that vibe on one of his signature songs, “Honest I Do.”

Today the judge counts 26 different homes he moved to in just a few years, and remembers going hungry when times got particularly hard. “Me and my Dad sometimes would knock heads together,” Rumer said. “He was not a great provider, so we had some periods of time when things were not great. We moved a lot, got put out a lot, got collected on a lot. I would run out of school and not be able to eat, things like that.” Because of his experiences growing up, he was thrifty with his finances: “I’m tight as a tick,” he said. He made sure he would never fail to provide for his own family.

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