draw tight
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Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I've got him," breathed the boy, feeling the line draw tight under his hand.
From The Pony Rider Boys in Montana Or, the Mystery of the Old Custer Trail by Patchin, Frank Gee
The heart strings draw tight and tighter until they tear or snap.
From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)
But could I like Montgomeries fight, Or gab like Boswell,^2 There's some sark-necks I wad draw tight, An' tie some hose well.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
