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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. 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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