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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



... 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


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