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tight squeeze

synonyms for tight squeeze

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"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.

His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.

As long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.

Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.

This difficulty of making a tight and safe boiler, that puzzled Watt, was moonshine to Trevithick.

I asked sharply, and MacRae flung the same query over one shoulder as he fumbled at the tight-drawn latigo-knot.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

From this point Mr Dean began to pump and squeeze, and Trumps proved worthy of his name in the way he submitted to both processes.

In this day there were some drops of the golden juices—some drops that she must squeeze out, that her thirsty lips must drink.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985