| 释义 | a kick up the arse/backsideidiomUKoffensive (USa kick in the butt/pants)
 If you give someone a kick up the arse, you do or say something to try to stop them being lazy.鞭策;教训,督促(使其不再懒惰)
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Causing somebody to act
 arm-twisting
 bludgeon
 bounce someone into something
 browbeat someone into something/doing something
 bull something through
 coercion
 dragoon someone into something
 drive someone/something to something
 duress
 force someone's handidiom
 forced marriage
 push (someone) toward(s) something
 put the heat on someoneidiom
 put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom
 rallying cry
 ram something down someone's throatidiom
 ransom
 slap
 squeeze
 wring
 
 
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