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nip and tuck
- Closely contested; neck and neck: “It was nip and tuck there for a while, but our team finally pulled through.”
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Idioms and Phrases
Very close so that the advantage or lead of competitors keeps shifting, as in It was nip and tuck whether they would deal with the bill before Congress adjourned . The precise allusion in this term has been lost. [Early 1800s] Also see neck and neck .Discover More
Example Sentences
They saw the light years ago and now many do a healthy nip-and-tuck business, especially on noses.
But did she really deserve all the nip-and-tuck hate-tweeting?
I knew right off it was a nip-and-tuck race, with the chances in favor of a man called Pringle getting nipped.
I pulled several gurgling dogs from their water-filled holes, each of them making nip-and-tuck efforts to climb out.
It was nip-and-tuck for the first half of that third period, with neither team making headway and the ball in air half the time.
Texas fought in the wild and savage style of the prairie, nip-and-tuck, go-as-you-please; and he was wild with anger.
For the first six innings, it was a nip-and-tuck battle between the two pitchers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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