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Nip and tuck   /nɪp ənd tək/   Listen
Nip and tuck

adjective
1.
Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition.  Synonyms: head-to-head, neck and neck.  "The election was a nip and tuck affair"






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"Nip and tuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Rick, the seniors on the farm. They were the regular road-pair, bay with black points, full brothers, aged, sons of a Hambletonian sire and a Morgan dam. There were Nip and Tuck, seal-browns, rising six, brother and sister, Black Hawks by birth, perfectly matched, just finishing their education, and as handsome a pair as man could wish to find in a forty-mile drive. There was Muldoon, our ex-car-horse, bought at a venture, and ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

... would be nip and tuck to reach Palo Duro, close though it was. He abandoned at once his hopes of racing up the canon until the Apaches dropped the pursuit. It was now solely a question of speed. He must get into the gulch, even though he had to kill his bronco to do it. After that he must ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... before we went to Philadelphia I had a streak of good luck and squeezed Murray out for keeps. Penn had a dandy team that year and we had to work like anything to bring the ball home. It was nip and tuck to the end of the first half, neither side scoring. Then we went back and began kicking, and Cooper had the better of the other chap ten yards on a punt. Finally we got down to their twenty yards, and Saunders and I pulled ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour

... sleeping porch and individual bathrooms—and about the time the Singers came back with a two-story bungalow full of chopped wood furniture, Mrs. Payley went abroad again and began to say: "The last time I was in Europe." It was nip and tuck, year in and year out, between the two, and we all ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch



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