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单词 pull strings
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pull strings

Make use of one’s influence and contacts to gain an advantage unofficially or unfairly: he tried to pull strings with people he knew to avoid being called up...
  • She did him her best turns later on when she got her influential lovers to pull strings for him.
  • Chastened by bitter internecine tenant warfare, battle-scarred managers frequently pull strings to ensure that all the baritones live on one side of the building, and all the heldentenors on the other.
  • I do not know what awaits me there, because we are not a rich family who can contact lawyers and agencies and pull strings and have papers rushed through.
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