put the squeeze on sb
US also put the bite on sb slangto ask someone to give you money:
She put the squeeze on her mother for a hundred bucks.
The insurance company put the bite on me for a huge increase in my premium after I crashed the car.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
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