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put the screws on
Idioms and Phrases
see under turn up the heat .Example Sentences
“We’ve seen him put the screws on dissenters in his regime and he has not wound down the gulag system,” said Mr. Richey.
“Some of the changes in laws, like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, put the screws on the accountants,” Mr. Kathrein said.
Even here, covid-19 is managing to put the screws on — Mom isn’t allowed to leave the grounds of her assisted living, which means she can’t come to our house, not even for Sunday dinner.
The pandemic also threatens to put the screws on consumption.
When it suits the U.S. to put the screws on a country, that is precisely what the IMF does.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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