English / idiom
Put the Squeeze
MEANING IN ENGLISH
To exert severe pressure or coercion on someone, often financially, to force compliance.
In context
01
Greedy intermediaries put the squeeze on traditional weavers by offering unfairly low wages.
02
The landlord attempted to put the squeeze on rural tenants to surrender their ancestral farming leases.
Synonyms
exert pressure,coerce,pressurize
Antonyms
relieve pressure,assist,support
Collocations
put the squeeze on debtors,put the financial squeeze,try to put the squeeze