hog-tie
- v tie together somebody's limbs
The prisoner was hog-tied
- Vexed was Pius XI because, after seven years of struggle, compromise and more struggle, Fascists were still trying to hog-tie Catholic Action.
- All too aware of past attempts to thwart Negro voting rights, the writers of the bill have added a clause that would hog-tie evasive Southern legislatures.
- To hog-tie Zog and make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini.