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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Tight
 
  Tight as a drum head.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Locked tight as an oyster.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Tight as a wad.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Tight as Dick’s hatband.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Tight as the skin of a gooseberry.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Tight as a bow-string.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  6
  Tight as a bottle.
            —Joseph Conrad		  7
  Tight as a gooseberry.
            —Charles Dickens		  8
  Skin tight like a bursting vest.
            —Amy Lowell		  9
  Tight like teeth.
            —George Meredith		  10
 
 
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