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Stranglehold   /strˈæŋgəlhˌoʊld/   Listen
Stranglehold

noun
1.
Complete power over a person or situation.  Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold.  "The president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"
2.
A wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe.



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"Stranglehold" Quotes from Famous Books



... the meantime, see if you can tell where we are. I got loose from their rays by going on both the high speed time-field and the space control at full, with all generators going full blast. Man, they had a stranglehold on us that time! But wait till we get ...
— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell
... associations. It is because the state leaves them more free. Those who talk of state-absolutism are ignoring the simple truth that there is no tyranny like the tyranny of near neighbours. The smaller the group the tighter its stranglehold over your life and activities. Groups and lesser loyalties are highly necessary, and indeed desirable, in our modern large-scale society; but they involve men, and especially weak-willed and thoughtless men, in far greater dangers than their larger citizenship. What the confessional at its worst ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various


Words linked to "Stranglehold" :   powerfulness, power, chokehold, wrestling hold


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