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tiger by the tail
noun as in compulsion
noun as in mania
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in obsession
Example Sentences
A child of the Dust Bowl, Owens was born in Texas and spent much of his childhood in Arizona before popping up in Bakersfield‘s nascent music club scene. He brought a twangy sound to country ballads, and by the 1950s and 1960s, that sound had turned his city into a western rival to Nashville. Some of his hits included “Together Again,” “Crying Time,” “Love’s Gonna Live Here,” “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” and “Under Your Spell Again.”
“When I graduated from school, I felt like I had the tiger by the tail; I could do almost anything,” Braugher told Variety in 2020.
“I told Kevin, ‘You know you got a tiger by the tail here.
I think the left is realizing they have a tiger by the tail.
“We got a chance to get a Tiger by the tail,” Pough joked.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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