Tight-lipped

Definition

tight /taÇt/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ၿမဲေသာ။ က်ပ္ေသာ။ မလႈပ္သာေသာ။ a tight knot ❍ keep a tight hold on the rope ❍ My belt's too tight ___ I need to let it out a bit. ❍ The drawer is so tight I can't open it. ၂။ က်ပ္ေသာ။ a tight joint ❍ These shoes are too tight for me. Compare LOOSE adj ၆ (ခ) See also AIRTIGHT, SKIN- TIGHT, WATERTIGHT ၃။ (က) က်ပ္ေသာ။ ခဲေသာ။ a tight mass of fibres ❍ a tight schedule (ie leaving little time to spare) ❍ With six of us in the car it was a tight squeeze. (ခ) ပြတ္ကာသီကာ အႏိုင္အ႐ံႈးရိွေသာ။ a tight race/ match/ contest. ၄။ အက်ပ္ အတည္း။ Having no money put me in a tight corner/ spot. ၅။ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ။ tight security/ constraints/ sanctions. ၆။ တင္းေသာ။ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ။ a tight rope/ rein ❍ The cord was stretched tight. ❍ My chest feels rather tight (eg because of ASTHMA). ၇။ ေထာင့္က်ဥ္း ေသာ။ a tight bend in the road. ၈။ ( infml ) မူး[ေသာ]။ လြတ္[ေသာ]။ I got a bit tight at the party. ၉။ (ေငြ)က်ပ္ေသာ။ We can't go to Florida this year ___ money's too tight. ၁၀။ ( infml derog ) ကပ္ေစးႏွဲေသာ။ တိုေသာ။ She's very tight with her money. adv ၿမဲၿမဲ။ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ။ Hold tight! ❏ keep a tight rein on sb/ sth [ IDM ] တင္းတင္းက်ပ္က်ပ္ ကိုင္သည္။ ❏ tight-fisted adj ေစးႏွဲေသာ။ တြန္႔တိုေသာ။ ❏ tight-knit adj စည္းလံုးေသာ။ ❏ tight-lipped adj ႏႈတ္လံုေသာ။ ႏႈတ္ေစာင့္ေသာ။ ေရငံု ႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေနေသာ။ ❏ tightly adv ၿမဲၿမဲ။ တင္းတင္းက်ပ္က်ပ္။ လံုေအာင္။ hold/ hug/ grip sb tightly ❍ tightly sealed. tightness n [U]

Examples

1. A tight skirt/dress
2. The first hat was a bit tight.
3. She hugged Marco in a tight grip.
4. She had twisted her hair into a tight knot.
5. The screw was so tight I couldn’t turn it.
6. Security has been very tight throughout the Prince’s visit.
7. It was politically desirable to have a tight economic policy.
8. Tight control of costs
9. A tight performance by the cast
10. They kept things tight for the first half of the game.
11. [a tight budget] : Holidays for people on a tight budget
12. [money is tight/things are tight] : Things will be a little tight for a few months.
13. If time is tight
14. cook the chicken the day before.
15. [a tight schedule/deadline/timetable] : We’re going to be working to a very tight schedule.
16. You can just about park here
17. but it’s pretty tight.
18. [a tight squeeze] : It’s a tight squeeze for all of you in our little house.
19. He gave her a tight smile.
20. His throat was too tight to allow the words to escape.
21. A tight bundle of sticks
22. Keep the windows tightly closed.
23. The campaign had been tightly controlled from start to finish.
24. The skirt fits a little too tightly around the waist.