over a barrel

常见例句

During the negotiation the opposing faction had us over a barrel.
在谈判中，那个对抗的派别使我们一筹莫展。
and a larger group of fatalists who think that Russia “has us over a barrel”, as one diplomat punningly puts it.
还有占大部分的宿命论者，一位外交官一语双关地指出，那些国家认为俄罗斯“已经把他们装进了油桶（欧洲在能源方面受到俄罗斯的制衡）”。
Two weeks ago a pair of American diplomats were closeted in Abbas' hotel bedroom, pleading with him not to put the Obama administration over a barrel with the Unesco application.
两周前两名美国外交官在阿巴斯的旅馆住所密会，要求阿巴斯不要借联合国教科文组织投票结果让奥巴马当局为难。
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Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.
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Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.
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If so, Facebook could be held over a barrel before any IPO in the way that Overture did with Google.
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