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Idioms and Phrases

Also, at knifepoint . Under coercion, as in I'm going to hold him at gunpoint for that raise he promised me last year . Both these phrases were at first used literally and later also figuratively. [Mid-1900s]

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As Brontë confronts Joe at gunpoint in the middle of a steamy encounter, he is caught off guard, literally with his pants down.

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Brontë ends up surviving and once again holds Joe at gunpoint while he begs her to kill him so he doesn’t have to face the fate he so deserves.

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Also, by his last scene with her, where she got him at gunpoint, I found the muscles in my neck, which is where all of the rage has always come out, were giving out in ways I’ve never experienced in my life.

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Few shots were fired, but Crimea was seized at gunpoint during a power vacuum.

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Ms Bragg, from Gwynedd, was stalked and held at gunpoint for eight hours by her ex-partner Gareth Wyn Jones in 2019.

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