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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
8 music a curved line above two or more notes of the same pitch showing that
they are to be played as a continuous sound rather than individually. 9NAmer a
railway sleeper. • tie someone in knots and tie the knot see under KNOTl .
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American idioms dictionary:
love my home, but sometimes I don 't like being tied down. tie someone in knots*
to become anxious or upset. (Informal.) □ John tied himself in knots worrying
about his wife during the operation. □ This waiting and worrying really ties me in
...
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NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases
4. tv. to tie something in Q; to fasten something with Q. 5. iv. to become tied or
twisted into Q. → tie the knot → tie someone in knots know ["no] 1. tv., irreg. to
have met and become familiar with some- one. (Past tense: knew; past par-
ticiple: ...
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Language, truth and politics
If you have the right meta- communicative skills, it is quite easy to tie someone in
knots, as in response to your questions, they try to formulate more precisely what
they meant etc. Meanwhile, the metacommuni- cator has not had to make any ...
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Journal of Individual Psychology
Laing (1970) believes that such metaperspectives can tie someone in "knots."
Unfortunately, reflexivity admits to no point of fulfillment. Oliver and Landfield (
1962) have asked the personality theorist to account for his theorizing. We could
ask ...
