tight ship

noun

tight ship

noun

1

Idiomatic A well-organized and highly disciplined organization.

to run a tight ship
You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me "the hammer".1999, Strangers with Candy (television production), spoken by Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert):

1 more example

I know your agent’s third cousin really wanted to hear their name, but the Oscar show producers run a tight ship, yes-sir-Bob.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):

Related terms: iron fist, right the ship

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