| 单词 | to put the arm on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put the arm on (a person) h. North American slang. to put the arm on (a person): (a) to exert physical force or violence on (a person); (b) to pressure or coerce (a person) to do something; to solicit or demand something from (a person). ΚΠ 1928 C. Panzram in T. E. Gaddis & J. O. Long Killer: Jrnl. of Murderer (1970) viii. 60 There I put the arm on him and we dragged him through the fence on the left side of the road. 1939 New Yorker 11 Mar. 43 One dingo got a dollar and one of the President's best cigars by ‘putting the arm’ on Mrs. Roosevelt at the entrance to her town house. 1949 ‘J. Macdonald’ Moving Target xvii. 126 ‘Why didn't you put the arm on him?’..‘We don't know where Sampson is, and if we throw our weight around, we'll never find out.’ 1965 F. Bonham Durango Street xxiii. 149 We'll put the arm on him for breaking and entering your house. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray xxx. 403 Three cadets and a lady reporter, putting the arm on a couple of spooks from God-only-knows-where. 1993 Grain Summer 47 The government..started putting the arm on people to contribute. 2000 R. Butler Greatest Threat ii. 27 The Arab foreign ministers immediately put the arm on me to give the Syrians what they wanted. < as lemmas |
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