大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 over a barrel


释义：

over a barrel 受人摆布；处于困境

例句：



They've got us over a barrel. Either we agree to their terms or we lose the money.

他们让我们别无选择。我们要么答应他们的条件，要么损失这笔钱。



A larger group of fatalists who think that Russia "has us over a barrel", as one diplomat punningly puts it.

正如一名外交官一语双关地指出的那样，一大批宿命论者认为俄罗斯“使我们处于困境”。



Because the USA is nearly bankrupt and the Chinese have them over a barrel.

因为美国和中国已接近破产装桶。



I had to comply; she knew about my indiscretion and she had me over a barrel.

我不得不照做，她知道我不检点之处，因此我被她控制了。



Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.


The Republicans are in a corner - over a barrel - although perilously unaware of their plight.


Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.


If so, Facebook could be held over a barrel before any IPO in the way that Overture did with Google.


"Business owners are over a barrel, " said John K. Paglia, finance professor at Pepperdine University who studies the credit markets.


You know, when the IP owner definitively has you over a barrel?


Delphi Chief Executive Officer Steve Miller has both GM and the UAW over a barrel, after putting Delphi into bankruptcy last October and demanding a 60% wage cut from the union.


We felt they had us over a barrel, and I think they baited us with the lower interest rate and knew all along that they were going to switch the rate on us.