The frontier knows justice, of course, but it is a tight-fisted justice that looks out for number one.
It appears to me that the employers have been tight-fisted and even less generous than was the case in the spinning, doubling and weaving sections.
A society that decides to be tight-fisted and selective in granting residence permits, visas, places in holding centres, is a closed and sectarian society.
He would not describe me in normal circumstances as tight-fisted.
We should not be tight-fisted about this.
The standard spending assessment locks historical underfunding in place and penalises councils that for one reason or another have been frugal or tight-fisted in the past.
He was small, lame, tight-fisted, and apt to weep under pressure, a performance that could disconcert authors and employees.
The tenor of the film oscillates between tight-fisted noir and chamber drama, but the theme is always the same: cultural and romantic unrest...
