Well, I have always taken that to be the implication from context & tone, Corporal. (And thank you for the response). But can you think of any other instances of 'tight' being used in quite that way, to mean something like 'difficult to tolerate or come to terms with', which is what 'tough' would imply, used in that way? I can't recall a single one. So why, suddenly, did Tampa Red come up with such a usage? And why, SFAIK, has nobody queried it before, in all these years?

~M~