1. tightening - Noun
2. tightening - Verb
of Tighten
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants. Navjot Singh Sidhu
Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. Eric Cantor
This deadly impasse, the tightening of the corporate totalitarian noose, would have continued if Snowden had not jolted the nation awake by disclosing the massive crimes of the prerogative state. Chris Hedges
"Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money." Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck. Bill Hicks
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same. Ann Kirkpatrick
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. Michael McCaul