English Dictionary

tight as a tick

形容詞

比較不可 俗語

(slang, simile) Drunk, inebriated. / Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting. / (slang, simile) Unwilling to spend money.

日本語の意味

泥酔した状態 / 膨張して破裂寸前の状態 / 非常にけちな状態

By the end of the party, he was tight as a tick and could barely walk.

パーティーの終わりには、彼はすっかり酔っぱらって歩くのもやっとだった。

意味（1）

(slang, simile) Drunk, inebriated.

For there ain't no kick Getting tight as a tick When you know that you're not breaking the law

意味（2）

Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting.

I blow it up until it's tight as a tick. Just below the skirt through which the lanyard passes, a tiny mouth whistles a single-note tune until the balloon's lungs are emptied.

意味（3）

(slang, simile) Unwilling to spend money.

Son, excuse me, but the woman was as tight as a tick, as my grannie used to say. The reason I didn't work on that car of hers is because the one time I did, I charged her a hundred forty-four dollars for a battery, which as you know is the cost to me. She said I was gouging her.