tight ship 的定义
- A well-managed organization, as in The camp director runs a tight ship. This metaphoric term alludes to a ship in which the ropes are taut and by extension the ship is strictly managed. [Second half of 1900s]
tight ship 近义词
well-managed business
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更多tight ship例句
- And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.
- After the captain made the call to abandon ship, 150 people were able to escape on lifeboats lowered by electronic arms.
- Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.
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- Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.
- A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
- The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
- "It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
- It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.
- His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.