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Does anyone know where the phrase 'Tight as a gnats chuff' come from? Who knows?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't know if the magazine invented the term, but I first encountered this phrase as a description of the Viz character Norbert Colon.
But as Quizmonster rightly points out, there's nothing clever about it. How about "tight as a wildebeest's sphincter"? See, anybody can do it.