Last seen in:
- L.A. Times Daily - Sep 29 2023
- Newsday.com - Nov 1 2020
- L.A. Times Daily - Dec 20 2018
- The Washington Post - Dec 20 2018
- The Chronicle of Higher Education - Sep 25 2015
- L.A. Times Daily - Apr 8 2015
- L.A. Times Daily - Nov 10 2013
- L.A. Times Daily - Jun 3 2012
- New York Times - May 15 2012
- Thinks.com - Dec 30 2010
Related Clues:
- Having no slack
- Fully extended
- Like a tuned piano string
- The most stretched
- Like a high wire
- Like a newly-installed fan belt
- Far from slack
- With little slack
- Like a drumhead
- Having no play, say
- Sans slack
- Stretched just short of the breaking point
- Most lacking slack
- Stretched tightly
- Emotionally strained