Idiom
put a gun to someone's head
Meaning
To compel someone (to do something); to create a situation in which someone has no alternative course of action.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Nobody put a gun to your head to take this job.”
“You do not have to finish the project tonight; nobody put a gun to your head to work this late.”
“While he claimed he was forced into the agreement, no one actually put a gun to his head to sign the contract.”
Examples
simple
“Nobody put a gun to your head to take this job.”
contextual
“You do not have to finish the project tonight; nobody put a gun to your head to work this late.”
complex
“While he claimed he was forced into the agreement, no one actually put a gun to his head to sign the contract.”
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