if you twist my arm
I will do it if you pressure me
TRANSLATION
twist someone's arm = jemanden zu etwas überreden --- GOOGLE INDEX twist my arm: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"It became obvious he wanted to play the part himself - but I made him feel like he had to TWIST MY ARM."
- film director Wim Wenders talking about actor Sam Shepard
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"No one TWISTED MY ARM to be a writer, I chose it."
- American author Ernest Gaines
- film director Wim Wenders talking about actor Sam Shepard
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"No one TWISTED MY ARM to be a writer, I chose it."
- American author Ernest Gaines
Did you
know?
twist someone's arm
idiom
- to persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do
(Cambridge Idioms Dictionary)
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Remember when kids used to twist each other's arm behind their backs to make them do or say something that they didn't want to do? These days, children resort to other methods, like snatching a mobile phone and not giving it back unless the victim agrees to do something, usually unpleasant. Times have changed, but the figurative sense of "twisting someone's arm" lives on.
The word twist serves other useful purposes in an idiomatic sense. Here are a few examples:
- twist someone's words = to restate someone's words inaccurately or misrepresent what someone has said (Listen to what I said and stop twisting my words around!)
- twist of fate = a fateful event; an unanticipated change in a sequence of events (That I ended up staying in Europe was a twist of fate)
- twist someone around one's little finger = to manipulate and control someone (It's disgusting the way he can twist her around his little finger)
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SYNONYMS
bring pressure to bear on someone, coerce someone, put a gun to someone's head (figuratively speaking), strong arm someone, push someone to do something
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people won't go to the dentist unless you twist their arm."
idiom
- to persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do
(Cambridge Idioms Dictionary)
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Remember when kids used to twist each other's arm behind their backs to make them do or say something that they didn't want to do? These days, children resort to other methods, like snatching a mobile phone and not giving it back unless the victim agrees to do something, usually unpleasant. Times have changed, but the figurative sense of "twisting someone's arm" lives on.
The word twist serves other useful purposes in an idiomatic sense. Here are a few examples:
- twist someone's words = to restate someone's words inaccurately or misrepresent what someone has said (Listen to what I said and stop twisting my words around!)
- twist of fate = a fateful event; an unanticipated change in a sequence of events (That I ended up staying in Europe was a twist of fate)
- twist someone around one's little finger = to manipulate and control someone (It's disgusting the way he can twist her around his little finger)
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SYNONYMS
bring pressure to bear on someone, coerce someone, put a gun to someone's head (figuratively speaking), strong arm someone, push someone to do something
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Many people won't go to the dentist unless you twist their arm."
