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throttlehold

thrott·le·hold

uncommon

noun

1.

complete power over a person or situation

  • “corporations have a strangelhold on the media”
  • “the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public”
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Origin

From throttle + hold.

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