Sentences with phrase «someoene over a barrel»

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

i think the vatican has the nuns over a barrel.

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

Could you please make this recipe read into cups for us US people.As iI am GF and this recipe looks good, but you have got me over a barrel.

# over a barrel.

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.

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.

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

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

These two have Wenger over a barrel.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

So we must be prepared to leave without any formal agreement if necessary, or the commission has us 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.

With the help of a golden souvenir from the previous movie, Bilbo manages to stage a jailbreak that leaves the elves, shall we say, 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.

So Arne has forced Alaska's hand — has it «over a barrel» in Lamar Alexander's words — and opens up the Common Core to the label of «federally mandated» national standards.

As Senator Alexander remarked, the Obama administration had states «over a barrel.»

As Senator Lamar Alexander said back then, Duncan had states «over a barrel.»

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

«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.

prevent current US Secretary of Education Duncan from continuing to hold «states over a barrel,» forcing them to do what he has wanted them to do to avoid being labeled failures.

You are right they definitely have us over a barrel.

This semester had me over the barrel; Nine college essays I had to write was a nightmare for me.

RIM were over a barrel).

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

Be it jumping over barrels or stomping Goombas, Mario has come a long way since then and I have to.

Leap over barrels in arcade class...

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.

The result is that the consortium has the government over a barrel.

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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.

Any energy company could see that the Labour and then coalition governments had openly declared their negotiation position for new nuclear: over a barrel, with no trousers.

-LCB- HInt: they have us over a barrel.

The idea of the cooling tunnel is that it directs the cool air flow directly over the barrels and makes for a higher velocity flow of cool air over the barrels for better heat transfer.

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.

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.

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

They had us over a barrel and I authorized payment so we could close.

I think when budget is an issue, many contractors know they have you over a barrel.

I must admit that your emails have «had me over a barrel», challenging me to get my creativity flowing again.