over a barrel

常见例句

During the negotiation the opposing faction had us over a barrel.
在談判中，那個對抗的派別使我們一籌莫展。
and a larger group of fatalists who think that Russia “has us over a barrel”, as one diplomat punningly puts it.
還有佔大部分的宿命論者，一位外交官一語雙關地指出，那些國家認爲俄羅斯“已經把他們裝進了油桶（歐洲在能源方麪受到俄羅斯的制衡）”。
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.
兩周前兩名美國外交官在阿巴斯的旅館住所密會，要求阿巴斯不要借聯郃國教科文組織投票結果讓奧巴馬儅侷爲難。
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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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