crack the whip
Example Sentences
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The game, as Eisman saw it, was crack the whip.
From Literature
Jagger, now the band’s senior member at age 80, has said that the Stones recruited Watt because they needed an outside figure to “crack the whip” — a role the producer has fulfilled on recent albums by fellow veterans such as Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop.
From Los Angeles Times
In an interview last year as McCarthy was seeking reelection, Jack Pandol Jr., a Republican strategist, said the congressman was a cross between “Gen. Patton and the Energizer Bunny. He can crack the whip. He is a survivor. His enemies have taken a shot at him more than once and he still gets up.”
From Los Angeles Times
It was time to crack the whip.
From Salon
“Gazing wistfully at my future home while I wait for James to crack the whip on the contractors and herd the cats,” Saylor wrote.
From Washington Post
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