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overstrung
(redirected from uptight)

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overstrung
(of a piano) having two sets of strings crossing each other at an oblique angle


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Mary Class (Jenny McCarthy) is an uptight, highly driven marketing executive who has no time for the holidays, until she is called home to help her heart-attack-stricken father -- who just happens to be Santa Claus (George Wendt) -- in ``Santa Baby.
My father was very supportive of me as a musician, but any daddy is going to be a bit uptight with his little girl.
His student, Gudrun Bojesen (from the Royal Danish Ballet), had a perky exuberance, and Deirdre Chapman (from The Royal Ballet) as the pianist/accomplice projected an uptight authority from her first stiff-legged walk.
 
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