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The phrase "got uptight" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who has become anxious, tense, or overly concerned about something. Example: "She really got uptight when she realized she had forgotten her presentation notes."
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We just kind of got uptight.
"The thing about Jimmy Breslin, O.K.," he said, "is he's a guy when he walked into a lounge on Queens Boulevard none of the wiseguys got uptight.
When I brought that home, my father got uptight and said something really sick, he said, "Can you imagine all our guys that died because of that?" I thought, This guy is a real asshole.
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Nobody allows himself to get uptight".
"Don't get uptight," he said.
"Our calls allowed them to get uptight and disrupt the timing".
When Murray missed a forehand and said to himself, "Oh, Andy," Lendl said: "This is nothing to get uptight about.
There's no point getting uptight about this like they do in America.
I used to get uptight when Germans said, 'We also suffered'.
"When you get uptight, he tells you to go out there and just play".
He said that the chanting "was distracting for the players" and that "they seemed to get uptight".
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