arm-twisting
掰手腕,掰掰手腕,掰掰手,掰掰手指头
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- : 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.
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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.