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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
Usage notes: A whip is a piece of leather or rope fastened to a stick which you hit a horse with in order to make it go faster.
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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Maybe things would have been different if Graham stuck around to crack the whip.
Santana Santana by The Fader
So crack the whip, Prime Minister, and remind energy chiefs they need public co-operation to build power stations.
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Power to our people by The Mirror (London, England)
This game is similar to Crack the Whip, but the added suspense of escaping the dragon's head makes it a great chase game also.
Catching the dragon's tail by Murray, Lynn / Children's Digest
 
 
 
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