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be uptight
adjective
Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious.
Exact(32)
"Don't be uptight".
"You can't be uptight.
Don't be uptight, don't be bourgeois".
"We shouldn't be uptight about music," she said.
I may be uptight – OK, I am uptight.
George said, 'Life's just a party, so you shouldn't be uptight about how people dress'").
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Maybe it's uptight guys from upstate NY struggling against their own latent uptightness?
Sober, I'm uptight.
The atmosphere was uptight, threatening.
In fact, I was uptight, anxious, scared.
"I thought she was uptight or something.
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