Also, it was a way of holding Brian in an even tighter noose.

The man was tied down by a tight noose about his neck.

A tighter noose is required, he told himself, making notes on redeployment orders.

I assume that your generals are drawing the ever tighter noose of my anaconda around the Rebels?

But fiscal realities remain a tight noose around any creative impulses.

The bindings terminated in a tight noose at each man's throat.

Almost trustingly, he reached up and grabbed one of the ropes that led to the tight noose around her neck.

But her enemies were drawing the noose steadily tighter about her with what amounted to the Church's tacit approval.

He hoped that China would privately cooperate, to pull the noose even tighter.

It's round your neck this rope ought to go, and a tight noose too.