arm-twisting 的定义
- the use of threat, coercion, or other forms of pressure and persuasion to achieve one's purpose: It took a lot of arm-twisting but he finally agreed to work this weekend.
arm-twisting 近义词
等同于 scare tactics
等同于 sweet-talk
等同于 coax
等同于 elicit
更多arm-twisting例句
- At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
- The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
- Dossi initially was listed in critical condition with wounds to his arm and lower back.
- She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.
- Women want a hot, young thing to parade around on their arm, too.
- She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
- In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.
- Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
- She looked up in his face, leaning on his arm beneath the encircling shadow of the umbrella which he had lifted.
- Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.