stranglehold
A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut offA grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.
» I'd want a girlfriend who can pull off a stranglehold.
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1 sensesA grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.
For years the company had a stranglehold on the rest of the industry.
Würgegriff
мёртвая хваткаmjórtvaja xvatka
- a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
- complete power over a person or situation
Examples
2 sentencesI'd want a girlfriend who can pull off a stranglehold.
The CSU political party now has a stranglehold on Bavaria, after having won every seat in the region during the last election.
Translations
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Origin
From strangle + hold.From strangle + hold.
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Forms
plural: strangleholds| Singular | stranglehold |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- complete power over a person or situation:chokeholdthrottlehold
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.