Sentences with phrase «over a barrel»

Must be nice to have both of your incumbent teams over a barrel.

The private equity firms that have financing guaranteed by the banks have the banks over a barrel.

I guess the tunnel is better than having nothing to direct the airflow over the barrels, but its not a good design in that there are dead air places between the barrels.

So, if we start blowing the cool night air over the barrels at (say) 10 pm, and stop just before sunrise (which is typically the low for the night), then if the night low temp is 50F, we might hope to get the barrel water down to 55F -LRB-?).

Leap over barrels in arcade class...

Pathetic excuse from Pep to get in Mourinho / Pogba's heads before the derby, and distract from them getting bent over the barrel by Liverpool on the weekend.

The event is commemorated in England as Guy Fawkes Day (or Bonfire Day), because he was the man actually found standing over the barrels of gunpowder.

Agents will no longer be able to hold clubs over a barrel, and transfers can stop being an obsession with everyone annually (while still allowing transfer talk to continue throughout the season.

«Just because the secretary has every state over a barrel doesn't mean he should be tempted to use this opportunity to become a national school board,» said Alexander.

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i think the vatican has the nuns over a barrel.

With national security like this, the North Koreans hold US over a barrel.

Oooh look at our last record transfer before Ozil and lets face it, Ozil was a force buy due to missing out on other targets, Wenger had the board over the barrel of a gun for that transfer.

I believe this is Wenger trying to play hard ball but the truth is that the players are both justified in what they ask for and also have Arsenal over a barrel.

These two have Wenger over a barrel.

Regardless of what the Frenchman's true motive is - at this point, it's almost impossible to tell - he can not hold Diego Simeone and the sporting directors over a barrel while they chart a course for building a team that can compete on three fronts.

The Legislature clearly will be permanently over a barrel if it doesn't figure out a way around that.

This is not to say that lawmakers are happy about the state of affairs in which they find themselves — more or less over a barrel, thanks to the extender bill option Paterson pioneered.

Indeed Cuomo, about to face his own re-election campaign, seemed to have the incoming head of the RGA over a barrel.

«The real solution is to change the law, not to have everybody exempted from the law and then have you be over a barrel with the union in order to get it done on time,» Little said.

It was presumed that they had Reagan over a barrel — and that their success would inspire imitators.

Right now Amazon has publishers over a barrel.

It's a calculated risk, since they still have to compete against cash, debit cards, and all the other credit card companies, so they don't have you totally over a barrel, but you shouldn't expect as many freebies, either.

OPEC has pretty well got these greedy SOBs over a barrel and keeps tightening the noose.

Duke long argued that the state's PURPA rules were too favorable for clean energy, and two years ago began slowing to a trickle connections of large solar arrays to its grid, leaving developers over a barrel.

That is, let the thermal mass of the living space itself (which has been cooled down by the exhaust air from the barrel tunnel) take of the cooling in the first part of the day, then as the space gets warmer than desired, use forced circulation over the barrels to provide more cooling later in the day.

In this case, the fan moving air over the barrels starts just after midnite and runs until about 7:15 am — it was supposed to start earlier, but the timer did not work.

Thus in Simon's original set of examples, having someoene over a barrel has a meaning that does not depend on unusual terminology — everyone knows what a barrel is.

A lot of AT&T bloatware: AT&T has Asus over a barrel.

The objective of the game is to climb up to the jackpot bonus at the top of the machine, along the way jumping over barrels and climbing up ladders.

I wasn't happy about being bent over a barrel, so to speak, but I didn't feel I had much choice but to sit there, hope Sony's «entry» would be gentle, and take it.

So essentially the England man held the club over a barrel and the club buckled.

No enemy has us over a barrel, because we buy steel from 110 different countries.

that someone like Nate Oats doesn't deserve to even sniff $ 3 million dollars, but now that it's out in the open that we offered Hurley $ 3 million, some of these coaches are going to have us over the barrel in what we have to offer them.

I'd do that for a 3rd, or maybe a second if we've got them over a barrel.

DARRELL HAD THEM ALL OVER A BARREL Louisville was fast running out of time.

These factors for me have resulted in a slow progression to this period where we have dropped away further in the league and have key players with 1 year left seemingly holding us over a barrel and also it seems far from convinced of where the club is going.

Has he actually got them over the barrel to the extent that he needs to be completely hopeless not to decide when he quits?

Women aim to please if they don't have you tied down whereas married women have you over a barrel and control your sex life.

But Adam complained that his father hadn't read a copy of «The Art of War» that Adam gave him, and hadn't learned the lesson that when you have your «enemy» over a barrel «you destroy him.»

He was looking to take us over a barrel,» Day said.

Europe knows it has us over a barrel on avoiding a March 2019 cliff edge, so member states are likely to start ratcheting up the demands on transition.

But if none of that were true, would the Legislature be «over a barrel» simply because of the extenders?

Never ever let people hold you over a barrel.