To explain how tight something is
How tightly can you keep that rope
chronically tense, unable to relax, highly reactive
My cat is so tightly wound he springs up off the floor if anything startles him, and he startles at the drop of a feather.
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Angela Martin from the Office
Dwight: "She's not the kind of person you would expect to see on Valentine's Day... She is like..."
Pam: "like tightly wound?'
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When a combination of one or more people, animals, individuals, groups, items, blueprints, insects, etc... is/are in an especially uncomfortable situation which has (basically?) no way out.
The antonym of tightly-knit.
Had we obeyed Our Lady and allowed Saint Pope Pius X to consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart, we wouldn't have gotten to know the product of a tightly-woven family - the leader who bombed a certain location in USA-zip-code 96818.
Had the supposed composer of the Minuet in G not married his cousin (who then proceeded to die at the ripe "old" age of 35), the star of the movie Ama Deus wouldn't have gotten himself into such a tightly-woven booze-fueled job-situation, resulting in his body getting thrown into a common grave at the same age.
Had the supposed composer of the Minuet in G not married his cousin (who then proceeded to die at the "ripe" old age of 35), the father of the composer of Moonlight Sonata, Pathetique Sonata, Fur Elise, his 9th Symphony Ode to Joy, and the inspiration for a disco instrumental named after drinking, which sold two million copies when released around 1976 as a single, while the album sold about 750,000 copies, probably wouldn't have fallen into a drinking problem, likely at the same age.