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

• titt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• titt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• titt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• titt som tätt in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)