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put a gun to someone's head

To compel someone; to create a situation in which someone has no alternative course of action.
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Richard Rosenbaum had deferred to Mr. D'Amato in leading the Dole effort in the state, but Mr. D'Amato delayed organizing it until, as Westchester County legislator Tim Carey put it, "Dole put a gun to his head."

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mettre un pistolet sur la tempe de quelqu'un

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