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单词 to put the squeeze on
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to put the squeeze on
b. In figurative use. Colloquial phrase (originally U.S.) to put the squeeze on (someone): to exert influence on (someone) to act in a particular way, to ‘pressurize’ someone. Also without indirect object.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > pressure > an act of
squeeze1711
squeeze play1916
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > pressurize
to put (also bring, exert) pressure on1853
squeeze1888
pressure1911
high-pressure1925
to put the lug on1929
to put the squeeze on1941
pressurize1945
to turn the heat on1957
to lean on1960
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 227 A rogue that writes a newspaper..has reflected on me in one of his papers; but the secretary has taken him up, and he shall have a squeeze extraordinary.
1777 J. Wedgwood Let. 13 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 204 Mrs. Du Burk's assurance in asking us to pay her debts is very great... It is another squeeze, and I would not pay a stiver.
1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians Introd. p. viii A squeeze and a gripe too often advertised the towns beneath, that..Athens had as much need of external as of native resources.
1850 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) II. 182 It begins again, the old pressure and squeeze of books and old routine.
1887 Spectator 21 May 675/2 A gentle squeeze to the Sultan might effect some improvement.
1941 E. B. White Let. 24 June (1967) 210 I am writing you direct to put the old personal squeeze on you.
1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) xxxiii. 220 She hired me to..put the squeeze on Linda for a divorce.
1949 Ann. Reg. 1948 6 The tension was not relaxed, for there now began the Russian ‘squeeze’ in Berlin.
1954 ‘J. Christopher’ Twenty-second Cent. 21 They're putting the squeeze on. But there's got to be an excuse before they can swallow us.
1969 A. G. Frank Lat. Amer. xxv. 394 The imperialist squeeze obliges them to react by squeezing their workers.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 217 Spilotro's army of enforcers..put the squeeze on hard-pressed loan~shark victims.
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