- がっちり
- *tight堅く, しっかりと∥ hold O tight …をがっちりつかむ.¶→がっちりしたsolidly built
tightly
shrewd
calculating* * *がっちり*tight堅く, しっかりとhold O tight …をがっちりつかむ.
¶ → がっちりした* * *がっちり1 〔頑丈なさま〕●がっちりした solid; robust; strongly [solidly] built; well-built
・がっちりした家 a solidly built house
・がっちりした体の 《a man》 of solid build.
●この机は脚が太くてがっちりできている. This desk has thick legs and is solidly built [robust].
2 〔ゆるみのないさま〕●がっちりした taut; tight; stretched
・がっちりスクラムを組む form a tight scrum.
●監督は疲れた選手を交代させ, がっちり守りを固めた. The manager replaced the tired players and tightened the defense.
・足をかけて相手を倒し, がっちりと押えこんだ. He toppled the other with a leg throw and pinned him fast.
3 〔けちで抜け目がないさま〕●がっちりした shrewd 《with money》; astute; wily; sharp
・がっちりためこむ 〔金を〕 save carefully [astutely, shrewdly].
●彼は金銭にかけては実にがっちりしている He's extremely canny [astute, wily, calculating] where money is concerned.
・すかさず自分を売り込むとはさすが現代っ子, がっちりしたものだ. She's a girl of her time in the forthright way she pushes for her advantage; she never misses a trick.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.