hold someone to ransom

hold someone to ransom

• • 绑票,劫持某人以索取赎金[亦作hold someone for ransom 或[美国英语]hold someone in ransom]
  • 敲诈(或勒索)某人[亦作hold someone up to ransom]
  • 以采取破坏性行动相威胁来迫使某人让步

• fighting fit
• malvaless
• out from under
• beside the purpose
• make a drama out of sth
• commercial paper
• pack sth↔in
• fillet
• demultiplexers
• revised edition
• Iceland moss, Iceland lichen
• scholastic agency
• introduced
• self-builder
• mental hospital
• crew-necks
• vaticinate
• Adimeridae
• dynamized
• pull-toy
• Rheims
• scally
• trifle with sb/sth
• Scotch fir
• finicalities
• helpest
• limerent n
• subquarter
• open sb's eyes
• graymail
• pipe stopper
• circumventor
• embroidery
• cool-hunting
• bitternesses
• Valletta
• Marlburian
• Son of Sam
• V.O.
• doctorer
• vascular tissue
• pentobarbitones
• Dalmanites
• Krasnodar
• reef it off in lumps
• transgressors
• Cottrell, Frederick
• run in the family
• Pozzuoli
• four-pounders
• demotion
• glass switch
• stick to someone's (或the) ribs
• Augustinian
• contented
• fellmongeries
• grapeshots
• stratocruisers
• bitchiness
• take an interest in
• subcortical
• stillborn
• salt dome
• match plays
• souveniring
• bur reeds
• knock sb / sth ↔ up
• cheesily
• longsome
• vigour
• potty break
• heretofore
• bribe
• demandant
• teacherages
• all-singing, all-dancing
• immobilizes
• softness
• graphomania
• weather fish
• to some extent
• dofunny
• heir-less
• Malayanize
• spline broach
• mitigatory
• anticlinoria
• scrap iron
• kala-azar
• Sverdrup Islands
• godwin austens
• straitness
• cone of depression
• helper t cells
• left and right
• knowbots
• Gilbert circuit
• concludable
• of great weight
• atactic structure