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Put the screws on.
If you put the screws on someone, you use threats or pressure in order to get them to do what you want.
Dictionary
put the screws
verb
To apply pressure (to something)
Exact(54)
"We could have put the screws in them tonight," Lo Duca said of the Phillies.
And so she put the screws to him––for another three seconds.
Nasa put the screws to me and said 'You gotta apologise'.
Dave ended up helping me put the screws in because I found them too tight to do up.
"They put the screws to Sobchak for four years," he said, "and then hounded the poor guy all over Europe".
This has turned out to put the screws on small law firms, which are statistically more likely to be involved in fraud, wittingly or not.
Similar(5)
Connor is the man who put the "screw" into Scrooge, and unlike Dickens's Ebenezer of "bah humbug" he remains just as dislikable after he's seen the light.
Put the screw aside.
Then put the screw through that hole.
Do not try to put the screw in if you haven't drilled the hole first.
Make sure you put the screw in feet on the legs to avoid doing this when the desk is already flipped over.
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