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Do you always mean something when you hold someone very tight?

What does it mean to hold something over a person's head?

  • I mean if someone said something like: "Don't hold your love over my head." I understand conceptually what it means, but I just can't put it into words. Any help?

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    It means to use it as a threat or extortion. Always there, ready to drop and cause injury if the dangler so chooses.

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if someone has a secret about you an threatens to tell to control you, they would be holding that over your head, for instance.

fooz1

I'm thinking something more like blackmail. But I could be wrong....

torices1

i think its called smothering.

lilsweetie193

you're using your relationship to make a person do something or guilty

jt

it means that you know something about that person that they dont want anyone esle to know. kind of like blackmail.

baby

I think it comes from a word picture of the Sword of Damocles that was waiting to come down and chop off his head. In classical mythology, Damocles was a courtier at the court of Dionysius I. He so persistently praised the power and happiness of Dionysius that the tyrant, in order to show the precariousness of rank and power, gave a banquet and had a sword suspended above the head of Damocles by a single hair. Hence the expression “the sword of Damocles” to mean an ever-present peril.

Martin S

Emotional blackmail, thats all it is.

Waz

it usually means holding a grudge...or using it as an ultimatum or blackmail someone emotionally

anastasia

A simple definition would be: expecting a favour in the future.

stairie

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