crack the whip
Example Sentences
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“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 ● Nov. 14, 2022
"Before she could say you're not going on TV ... But now she can't crack the whip like a prime minister normally does," the veteran Conservative said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2017
It might be folklore, but there are tales of Romar, after games in which he felt the team played too soft for his liking, letting Dollar crack the whip in practice.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2017
No surprise to learn that Wags is a friend, but the office doesn’t really need two Wagses to crack the whip on wavering staffers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
This enabled the two Voyagers to use a "gravity assist" technique in which the craft were successively flung from one gassy giant to the next in a kind of cosmic version of "crack the whip."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
