over a barrel in a sentence

Examples

1. The owners have the cities over a barrel.
2. The big labor unions are over a barrel and becoming powerless under the administration's anti-labor onslaught.
3. They feel they have us over a barrel.
4. They will replace the ladder Jen�k usually uses with a plank over a barrel of water.
5. "He really had Exxon over a barrel, " laughed local trademark lawyer Thomas M . Scofield.
6. You are kind of stuck over a barrel.
7. But other kinds of slotting fees stifle competition, hurt consumers and hold smaller manufacturers over a barrel.
8. Who has whom over a barrel now?
9. They have consumers over a barrel.
10. They're really over a barrel ."