"tight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tight adjetivo

tight + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 264

tight end • tight control • tight budget • tight race • tight circle • tight security • tight grip • tight smile • tight spot • tight schedule • ...

verbo + tight

Kolokacji: 11

sit tight • feel tight • grow tighter • hold tight • draw tight • ...

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) sit, grow, draw, pull, stretch

Kolokacji: 5

(2) feel, hold, wind

Kolokacji: 3

1. feel tight = poczuj mocno feel tight

2. hold tight = mocno trzymać hold tight

3. wind tight = wiatr mocno wind tight

Ms. Abbott reveals gradually (as it was revealed to her) why Hat never finished school, why such a charming man was wound so tight and why his relations with his parents fueled a helpless anger.
Besides, if I had to stay where I was much longer, my nerves were going to wind so tight that I'd implode.
He was wound so tight that if Kovac pushed him hard enough and he snapped, it would be like suddenly loosing a hightension wire-no control at all.
On the last night, he'd be wound especially tight.
The springs there were wound so tight that it would be a long while before there was any slack in them.
"You have to be wound so tight and you can't have any feelings."
I guess I'm wound a little tight.
Mr. Meinert, the chorus teacher, is wound so tight that he blows up at Hart and the entire class.

(3) squeeze, clench, cling

Kolokacji: 3

adverbio + tight

Kolokacji: 16

extremely tight • pretty tight • fairly tight • increasingly tight • unusually tight • ...

tight + preposición

Kolokacji: 8

tight with • tight in • tight to • tight around • tight of • ...

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