standover merchant
/ˈstandəʊvə ˌməːtʃ(ə)nt
/(also standover man)
noun Australian informal
A person who uses intimidation to impose their will: a rather unpleasant example of a political standover merchant...
- All I can say is, pity help the would-be standover merchant who tries to lean on, or recruit, those siblings.
- He drifted into crime, beginning his long career as a standover man.
- He claimed he was being made a scapegoat by the inquiry and strenuously denied he was a standover man.
Origin
1930s: from the Australian sense of stand over 'threaten, extort money from' + merchant.
- put (or bring or carry) something into effect
- put (or give or set) one's mind to
- put (or have) someone's ass in a sling
- put (or have) the wind up
- put (or lay) one's cards on the table
- put (or lay) one's head (or neck) on the block
- put (or lay) on jam
- put (or place) a premium on
- put (or place) someone on a pedestal
- put (or set) one's hand to the plough
- put (or set) one's house in order
- put (or set) pen to paper
- put (or set) someone right
- put (or set) something to rights
- put (or set) spurs to
- put (or set) the cat among the pigeons
- put (or set) the record straight
- put (or set) the seal on
- put (or stick) one's oar in
- put (or throw) someone off the scent
- put out
- put out to grass
- put (out) to sea
- put paid to
- put-put