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
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
But could I like Montgomeries fight, Or gab like Boswell,^2 There's some sark-necks I wad draw tight, An' tie some hose well.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Not until the boys got up to go to work did the family bond draw tight enough to show.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
