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单词 get your claws into sb
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get your claws into sb

informal disapproving

to find a way of influencing or controlling someone:

If the loan company gets its claws into you, you'll still be paying off this debt when you're 50.

If a woman gets her claws into a man, she manages to start a relationship with him, often because she wants to control him or get something from him:

If she gets her claws into that young man, she'll ruin his political career.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Affecting and influencing

  • across-the-board
  • act
  • affect
  • applicability
  • be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
  • bear on sth
  • cross
  • force
  • inspiration
  • instrumental
  • jerk
  • lead 1
  • leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
  • major league
  • reverberate
  • thing
  • turn sb's head idiom
  • unlock
  • warp
  • work against/for sb

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Capturing or taking possession of things
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