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"Get over a barrel" nghĩa là gì?
19 Mar, 2020
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"Get/have (one) over a barrel (cái thùng)" = đẩy ai vào hoàn cảnh khó khăn.
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What, then, could the “resistance” today learn looking back at Trump’s experience on the Upper West Side? “You have to find a way to get him over a barrel,” Gutman told me. “You have to back him into a corner or get him over a barrel.”
It might be a little while until Congress passes a bipartisan (thuộc về hai đảng, lưỡng đảng) bill to provide relief in the wake of the novel coronavirus spread, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appears to have all the leverage, Politico reports. In fact, she may have President Trump "over a barrel."
“The numbers really speak for themselves. They get so vastly disproportionate (không cân đối, không tỷ lệ) to the toll that is owed that they cease to be reasonable and the statute requires that they be reasonable,” says Walter D. Kelley, attorney at Hausfeld LLP, who is the lead attorney representing the plaintiffs (nguyên đơn). “As one person told Channel 9, ‘They get you over a barrel like that. They keep pushing you. They have the money and lawyers to do that and you don’t.’ Well, this lawsuit will even the playing field,” he adds.
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