- Anxious
- Anxious about being sent off east
- Anxious to flex muscles
- Become rigid
- Brace (oneself)
- Cliffhanging
- Drawn taut
- Close-run
- Constricted
- Firmly fixed
- Inebriated; parsimonious; constricting
- Mean to be strict
- Mean with money
- Miserly
- Meanest quote from Bangkok trial
- Most taut
- Narrowest
- Shortest and sweetest
- Stingiest
- Edginess
- Taut feeling