tight hand
Example Sentences
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Demands for better pay from teachers and National Health Service workers are colliding with the government’s tight hand on the public purses.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Life means waking up every morning with the tight hand of anxiety opening and closing on my esophagus.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2012
It was the woman, the way she clutched her handkerchief and brought her tight hand down on the desk for emphasis, the flash in her eyes which reflected something deep in her experience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside were five shabby notebooks, all written in the same tight hand, over the period 1903 to 1911.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edward II. also held a tight hand on the mayoralty till he appointed the great goldsmith, Sir Nicholas Farindon, mayor "as long as it pleased him."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
