TIGHT-LACED

PRONUNCIATION: (TYT-laysd)

MEANING: adjective: Excessively proper, strict, or old-fashioned.

ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tightly laced bodice, popular in the past. Earliest documented use: 1741.
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TIGHT-LACKED - loose and rattling

EIGHT-LACED - having multiple redundancies of fasteners

TIGHT-PLACED - next to no wiggle-room