tight as a tick
Adjective
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Adjective
tight as a tick (not comparable)
- (slang, simile) Drunk, inebriated.
- 1933, Irving Berlin, "Eighteenth Amen Repealed", in The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, page 290
- For there ain't no kick
Getting tight as a tick
When you know that you're not breaking the law
- For there ain't no kick
- 1933, Irving Berlin, "Eighteenth Amen Repealed", in The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, page 290
- Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting.
- (slang, simile) Unwilling to spend money.
- 2003, Anna Quindlen, Blessings: a Novel, page 215
- "Son, excuse me, but the woman was as tight as a tick, as my grannie used to say. The reason I didn't work on that car of hers is because the one time I did, I charged her a hundred forty-four dollars for a battery, which as you know is the cost to me. She said I was gouging her."
- 2003, Anna Quindlen, Blessings: a Novel, page 215
- (drunk, inebriated) drunk, full as a goog, full as a tick, inebriated, intoxicated; see also Thesaurus:drunk
- (fully inflated) full, full as a tick, inflated, overinflated, swollen
- (unwilling to spend money) miserly, thrifty; see also Thesaurus:stingy
- Russian: (colloquial) пья́ный в доску
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