twist someone’s arm

Definition

› to get someone to do what you want by making it very difficult for him or her to refuse: I didn’t want to go to the exhibition, but Linda twisted my arm.

(Definition of twist someone’s arm from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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twinkle v
twinkling adj
twirl v
twist n CHANGE
twist n TURN
twist someone’s arm idiom
twist v CHANGE
twist v TURN
twisted adj STRANGE
twisted adj TURNED
twister n

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