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Stranglehold

noun

Complete power over a person or situation. Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold. "The president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"

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

... Ma Pettengill said, what could a lady do when Fate had a stranglehold on her. There was, indeed, nothing to do but tell Sissy to tell one of her incendiary brothers to get up close to grandpa, and yell good and loud at him, and make him understand he was to get a count on that bunch at the first gate, because it didn't look to us that there was over ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... a groan. I whirled and saw Kyral go down, struggling, drowning in half a dozen or more of the fierce half-humans. I leaped at the smother of bodies, ripped one away with a stranglehold, slashed at ...

— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... 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