draw tight
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Helen Sung/Benny Green On two different new trio records, two jazz pianists in early middle age with fluent and streamlined styles draw tight lines around jazz from the 1940s to the ’60s.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heart strings draw tight and tighter until they tear or snap.
From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)
Strait′en, to make strait or narrow: to confine: to draw tight: to distress: to put into difficulties.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Begin an oval, 8 D join to the 11th L of the 2nd 14 of the design, 8 D draw tight and tie as before.
From The Bath Tatting Book by Anonymous
