sit tight

verbbe patient, wait

Synonyms for sit tight

verb be patient, wait

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "dense, close, compact," from Middle English thight, from Old Norse þettr "watertight, close in texture, solid," from Proto-Germanic *thenkhtuz (cf. second element in Old English meteþiht "stout from eating;" Middle High German dihte "dense, thick," German dicht "dense, tight," Old High German gidigan, German gediegen "genuine, solid, worthy"), from PIE root *tenk- "to become firm, curdle, thicken" (cf. Irish techt "curdled, coagulated," Lithuanian tankus "close, tight," Persian tang "tight," Sanskrit tanakti "draws together, contracts").

Sense of "drawn, stretched" is from 1570s; meaning "fitting closely" (as of garments) is from 1779; that of "evenly matched" (of a contest, bargain, etc.) is from 1828, American English; that of "drunk" is from 1830; that of "close, sympathetic" is from 1956. Tight-assed "unwilling to relax" is attested from 1903. Tight-laced is recorded from 1741 in both the literal and figurative senses. Tight-lipped is first attested 1876.

Example Sentences for sit tight

By the way, Marshfield, you can sit tight to a horse, I trust?

Mrs. Harris puts it in this way, “If you had said, ‘Sit tight,’ why should I have jumped off?”

Why she should have thought he said “Jump off,” when he said “Sit tight,” neither of them can explain.

I daresay my best plan will be to sit tight, and let her work herself up a bit.

She sit tight as wax, because she think they haunt her if she don't and I too by and by when I dead.

"You sit tight an' mind yore own affairs, stranger," he warned.

"We've just to sit tight and keep our mouths shut, Trendall," he said.

Sit tight and Ill have you there in a jiffy, and then we will take the long road back.

Yes, just sit tight and dont jump and youll be all right, he declared.

Accordingly, he told Bumpus to “sit tight” and watch their luggage.

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Synonyms for sit tight

bide

brook

hole up

holed up

remain

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Synonyms for sit tight

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