put / tighten the screws on sb

put / tighten the screws on sb informalto force someone to do something by threatening them威逼某人做某事:•The government has started to tighten the screws on illegal share dealers.政府开始打压不法券商。

• Canton River (Zhu Jiang)
• vestmented
• Kshatriya
• environmentally aware
• deep dragonfish
• betwixt and between
• combining weight
• slam into/against sb/sth
• cataractous
• carpet knights
• corresponding image points
• make sail
• w.a
• gele
• do homage to
• listenest
• jerusalem oaks
• bipropellant
• urger
• on an empty stomach
• subteen
• knock around also knock about
• shipbuilder
• dimethylisopropanolamine
• gainst
• tennis courts
• Torontonian
• unifilar suspension
• a prejudice in favour of
• spains
• sure as a fate
• softback
• fired-process equipment
• mark sth↔off
• haemostatic
• swelling
• birthrights
• ergot
• bering times
• Trypanosomatidae
• hymenophores
• guanosine
• sombernesses
• annualization
• Hart
• o.c.s.o
• a / the pit of sth
• proportional counter
• SE by E
• vandyking
• foreign policy
• ask around
• rpt
• -gerous
• pour spout
• splice plate
• Gallophile
• cretinising
• Latinizations
• teether
• glycidols
• raise/up the ante
• rurban
• mastitic
• be it known (that)
• bench stop
• self-hypnotic
• constructible
• stick / poke your nose into sth
• apeldoorns
• Labradorians
• seize occasion by the forelock
• ligand
• french revolutions
• speed merchant
• Old England
• indoor relief
• pin sth on
• meganewton
• psychobiology
• winnest
• gonitis
• craggier
• be stuck on
• Hamiticisation
• with safety
• neoisolationism
• acidly
• oxonium ion
• by your favour
• current feed
• start off on the right(或 wrong) foot with
• relocatable coding
• Junkers, Hugo
• pathoneurosis
• Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian
• noon news
• kidlet
• keep a record of
• round-the-world echo