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put the screws on



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Idioms and Phrases

see under turn up the heat .
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Example Sentences

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“We’ve seen him put the screws on dissenters in his regime and he has not wound down the gulag system,” said Mr. Richey.

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“Some of the changes in laws, like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, put the screws on the accountants,” Mr. Kathrein said.

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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.

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The pandemic also threatens to put the screws on consumption.

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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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