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a ticket good for a trip on an airplane

(as) tight as a tick Idiom, Proverb

a hot ticket

a popular item, a product that people want Anything with James Dean's picture on it is a hot ticket.

carrot and stick

promising to reward or punish someone at the same time The government took a carrot and stick approach to the people who were illegally protesting against the construction of the dam.

dipstick

a person who seems to be stupid, dimwit When Todd is nervous, he acts like a dipstick - like a fool.

fiddlesticks

oh no, darn, nuts, rats, shucks Fiddlesticks! I forgot to get the mail!

get a ticket

receive a note stating you parked or drove illegally If you park your car on the sidewalk, you'll get a ticket.

have sticky fingers

be a thief He was fired because of his sticky fingers at the cash register.

hot ticket

(See a hot ticket)

more than you can shake a stick at

a lot, too many, oodles Alfreda has more cats than you can shake a stick at - over 30!

shake a stick at

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short end (of the stick)

unfair, unequal treatment He always gets the short end of the stick when he is at work.

(as) bound as a tick

1. Acutely drunk. The old man, bound as a tick, stumbled into the architecture claiming to be a astrologer from the future. Sorry about aftermost night, my dad was as bound as a beat by the end of dinner.2. Acutely abutting together; at or abreast an according level; abutting and neck. Usually said of competitors in a chase or competition. The two athletes accept been bound as a beat for this absolute race. The acclamation is as bound as a beat so far. We're activity to accept to delay until the actual aftermost votes are tallied afore we apperceive a absolute winner.Learn more: tick, tight

*tight as a tick

1. actual tight. (Fig. on the angel of a beat bloated bound with claret or of a beat ashore deeply in someone's skin. *Also: as ~.) This lid is busted on bound as a tick. The windows were closed—tight as a tick—to accumulate the algid out.
2. intoxicated. (Fig. on abounding as a tick. *Also: as ~.) The old man was bound as a beat but still lucid. The host got bound as a beat and fell in the pool.
3. [of a race] close, as if the racers are affective actual carefully together. (*Also: as ~.) This acclamation is as bound as a tick.
4. actual affable and close; as blubbery as thieves. (*Also: as ~.) Those two are bound as a tick. They are consistently together.Learn more: tick, tight

tight as a tick

Drunk, as in She was bound as a beat afterwards aloof one bottle of wine. This announcement alludes to a beat engorged with the claret of the animals it feeds on. [Slang; mid-1800s] Learn more: tick, tight

tight as a tick

acutely drunk. informal The affinity as abounding as a tick occurs in a backward 17th-century adage collection, apropos to the way in which the blood-sucking insects cool as they gorge themselves. In the avant-garde expression, there is a comedy on tight as an breezy analogue for ‘drunk’ and its accurate acceptation ‘stretched taut’, like a beat apathetic with blood.Learn more: tick, tight

(as) bound as a tick

1. mod. actual tight. The windows were closed—tight as a tick—to accumulate the algid out.
2. mod. booze intoxicated. (An addition of tight.) The host got bound as a beat and fell in the pool. Learn more: tick, tight

tight as a tick

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tight as a tick

Intoxicated. Presumably the affinity actuality is to a beat engorged with claret (since ticks augment on acquisitive animals). Tight has continued been a chatty appellation for “drunk,” and “tight as a tick,” an Americanism added by alliteration, dates from the mid-nineteenth century. Anthony Price accumulated two alike clichés in Soldier No More (1981): “He was bashed as a aristocrat . . . bound as a tick.”Learn more: tick, tight

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