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crack the whip

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crack the whip
to use your authority to make someone work harder, usually by threatening or punishing them. We were already three months behind schedule so I thought it was time to crack the whip.
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crack the whip
to use your authority to cause people to do more or do what you want. He is one editor who knows how to crack the whip, so his authors generally hand in their assignments on time.
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He could crack a joke and crack the whip at the same time.
Taming and civilizing such an unwieldy spatial behemoth is never easy, but Grimshaw manages to crack the whip with a good deal of rigour and style.
He was always there, smiling and trying to crack the whip," says Jose Rodriguez Lopez, technical director at the complex.
 
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