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Idioms and Phrases
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]Discover More
Example Sentences
Why would the Revolutionary Guards, known for running a tight ship, get involved in such a sloppy caper?
She's a tight ship, and she's got as good officers and crew as ever I sailed with.
I'd never really felt comfortable around the old man, who'd been a Navy radio operator and ran his household like a tight ship.
A brave tight ship, I tell you, bearing down directly for Barbadoes here.
A tight ship, he thought, a ship that was ready for anything.
Past experience had taught him that the three cadets kept a tight ship.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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