tv. to pressure someone; to threaten someone to achieve something. : He told everything about the plan when they put the screws on him. , The cops put the heat on him to try to make him talk.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Put the screws on sois always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.