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What does it mean when you dream about a necktie?

A loose-fitting necktie around one’s neck can be a symbol of “tying up” loose ends in one’s business world. If however, the necktie is drawn too tightly, then a condition of entrapment may be causing the dreamer some anxiety. (See also Knot, Noose.)

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At this his interlocutor, smiling mockingly above the bristling bow of his necktie, switched the conversation into French.
You know my hair is a sort of golden brown, rather a pretty shade I've been told, and a dark red matches it beautifully; and then I always think a light-blue necktie goes so well with it, and a pair of those Russian-leather shoes and a red silk handkerchief round the waist - a handkerchief looks so much better than a belt.
His hands were raised, and he seemed to be settling his necktie. Then he mounted his cycle, and rode away from me down the drive towards the Hall.
"When in your report you said that you had seen the cyclist as you thought arrange his necktie in the shrubbery, that alone should have told me all.
When the half-hour struck, he passed his hand across his forehead, and then got up hastily and dressed himself with even more than his usual care, giving a good deal of attention to the choice of his necktie and scarf-pin and changing his rings more than once.
Looking at him again, more strictly, I could not exactly say what it was that gave me the sense of antiquity, except the antique cut of his white clerical necktie and the barred wrinkles across his brow.
He went with a new set, now, young unmarried fellows who were "sporty." Jurgis had long ago cast off his fertilizer clothing, and since going into politics he had donned a linen collar and a greasy red necktie. He had some reason for thinking of his dress, for he was making about eleven dollars a week, and two-thirds of it he might spend upon his pleasures without ever touching his savings.
A sculpture like Vanity Man--consisting of a base made from neckties fanned out into a vortex, surmounted by an asymmetrical structure of wood slats and organza--has closer affinities with the patchwork aesthetic of current clothing designers like Imitation of Christ.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma reiterated Friday the government will consider all requests for emergency import curbs in line with relevant rules, following a move by domestic necktie makers to study lodging an official request for a curb on imports of Chinese-made neckties.
Japan's necktie producers on Thursday approved a proposal to start a probe into the import of neckties with an eye to asking the government to slap an emergency import curb on Chinese-made neckties.
But Tom's troubles aren't over cup ties - it's neckties.
The most effective of House's dances was Early Departures, a 1992 male quartet addressing, according to a program note, "the uncertainty of relationships in a time of plague." Similarly dressed in oxfords, trousers, shirts, and neckties, the four men cluster, twine, scramble and intermix without achieving anything like a physical resolution.
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