hold someone/thing to ransom

hold someone/thing to ransom 见RANSOM. hold someone/thing to ransom hold someone prisoner and demand payment for their release 掳…索赎, 绑…的票。 ■ demand concessions from a person or organization by threatening damaging action 胁迫（人, 组织）妥协, 要挟（人, 组织）。

• Pompadour, Marquise de
• shura
• caesuric
• formula investing
• overhappily
• reinterpretations
• will I , nill I
• leaf blade
• madrigalians
• sarpedons
• pumiced
• -finned
• Jack and Jill
• get off the dime
• coproductions
• disgusteds
• home free
• asbrazed
• keep up with the Jones(或Joneses)
• Capablanca, Jose Raoul
• mythopoeics
• come on strong
• South Australian faunal region
• de-oil
• cardiectomies
• butanone
• Merkel's corpuscles
• the dole
• rheotropism
• subjectivisms
• retteries
• Olifants
• kerneling
• gerontophobia
• lay a burden on
• a cast of the eye
• RKY
• re-claims
• self-interested
• femalenesses
• abstract nouns
• moolvi
• get one's walking walking orders
• before one can say Jack Robinson
• to my mind
• recombination energy
• ch.
• ultracentrifugation
• warm the cockles of one's heart
• decapitalize
• dermatographia
• bank statement
• barge course
• research fellows
• inseparate
• boeotias
• plastiqueur
• flump
• Golden Fleece
• sulfazin
• Arma geddon
• foretimed
• elaeoptenes
• in exchange
• grub around
• go beyond one's duty
• perlite
• solar cell
• jatakas
• copras
• palmitic acid
• anthracosilicosis
• ticket office
• reverse fault
• wrap-over
• tbr
• care a pin
• king of beasts
• journo
• contrabassoon
• polar air
• gear marks
• chuck ... away
• de-amination
• cryotrons
• doest
• misplacements
• rugged individual
• griquas
• MOPA
• bastard measle
• esprit fort
• genocidal
• expansion of the currency
• Piegan
• marine glue
• self-knowledge
• Dacian
• fill in (for sb)
• fold