titt som tätt

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of titt (“often, frequently”) +‎ som (“as [well as]”) +‎ tätt (“often, tight”).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

titt som tätt (not comparable)

  1. frequently
    • 2008 November 8, Siv Strömquist, “En svår konst att böja lånord [A difficult art of declining loanwords]”, in Svenska Dagbladet:
      Ett ord som just nu förekommer titt som tätt på tidningssidorna är entourage, egentligen ’omgivning’.
      A word that currently appears frequently on newspaper pages is entourage, which essentially means "surroundings".
    Hennes telefon ringer titt som tätt under intervjun
    Her phone rings every few minutes during the interview
    Titt som tätt blossar debatten upp igen
    Every so often, the debate flares up again
    1. often, regularly
      Jag träffar honom titt som tätt genom jobbet
      I often run into him through work
      Programmet kraschar titt som tätt
      The program crashes regularly

Usage notes

Feels somewhere between "every now and then" and "all the time."

References

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