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单词 with a pistol at one's head
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with a pistol at (also to) one's head
c. with a pistol at (also to) one's head: under pressure; while being threatened.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > under compulsion [phrase]
on compulsion1598
under task1671
under a force1681
with a pistol at (also to) one's head1892
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xvi, in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 160/1 I assure you it is not at all my habit to do business with a pistol to my head.
1978 Times 14 Mar. 19/2 The [French] Socialists..have an understandable dislike of negotiating with a pistol at their heads.
1987 Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. I can't negotiate with a pistol at my head.
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