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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... obtain by threat(s), blackmail someone for, extract, exact, coerce, wring, wrest,
screw, squeeze, milk, worm something out of someone; N.Amer. &Austral.
informal put the bite on someone for; archaic rack.
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American English Idiomatic Expressions in 52 Weeks: An Easy ...
... out (END) 228 put someone in his/her place (DIS) 259 put someone in the
picture (COMM) 290 put the bite on someone (MON) 317 put the cart before the
horse (PLAN) 286 put the screws to someone (AUTH) 233 put the smack 442
Index.
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Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought
The Oxford English Dictionary notes an obsolete slang usage of the substantive.
A "bite" may be "an imposition, a deception; what is now called a 'sell/"8 as in the
expression, "to put the bite on" someone. (A venerable pun calls a bishop a "bite
...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
... unsuccessful. 2 said of a person: to fall down dead; to be Killed. • bite the hand
that feeds you to harm or show ingratitude towards a person who is being kind or
helpful to you. • put the bite on someone slang to extort or borrow money from ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
... bite the hand that feeds you to harm or show ingratitude towards a person who
is being kind or helpful to you. put the bite on someone slang to extort or borrow
money from them. O bite something back co//o<7 to restrain oneself from saying ...
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... archaic panegyrize. antonyms criticize. extort verb he was convicted of
extorting money from local residents: force, extract, exact, wring, wrest, screw,
squeeze, obtain by threat(s), blackmail someone for; informal put the bite on
someone for; ...
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Dictionary of Typical Command Phrases
... like to put the bite on someone, including myself I don't try to do this but just find
myself at it. I'm so mad I could chew nails and spit tacks. I'm going to get rid of all
my weapons. Narrow-mindedness: I must limit my thoughts. I'm always careful ...
Richard W. Wetherill, 2009
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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
The door of the teashop swung open and shut as youths inside and out tried to
put the bite on someone — maybe a "brother" would stand them to a meal or lend
them a little money to tide them over — anything to still their hunger. Later on ...
It is a tax on use, this thinning of the dime, as if money would otherwise be free of
entropy; although to put the bite on someone has come to mean to beg for a loan,
possibly as a return of favor, where the request is clearly not intended to invite ...
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Undead Reb Down Under and Other Vampire Stories
Not having to put the bite on someone – anyone – was such a relief. The
community hall art class she attended Thursday nights was proving to be
promising and so was the university course she was taking in economics of a
Friday. All things ...
