hog-tie
Example Sentences
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Rodeo organizers are calling bull on a Los Angeles City Council proposal to hog-tie the sport in the name of animal rights.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
He thought his colleagues had set up "a dogma of absolute freedom for irresponsible and provocative utterance" which would almost completely hog-tie local authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
To hog-tie Zog and make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
His flamboyant Senate oratory could drown an opponent in sweet molasses or hog-tie him in barbed wire.
From Time Magazine Archive
About the only time I didn’t go hunting was when the weather was bad, and even then Mama all but had to hog-tie me.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
