hog-tie
Example Sentences
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Rodeo organizers are calling bull on a Los Angeles City Council proposal to hog-tie the sport in the name of animal rights.
From Washington Times • Feb. 21, 2022
Having already rounded up most of TV, the western will also try to hog-tie Christmas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thought his colleagues had set up "a dogma of absolute freedom for irresponsible and provocative utterance" which would almost completely hog-tie local authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
To hog-tie Zog and make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini.
From Time Magazine Archive
About the only time I didn’t go hunting was when the weather was bad, and even then Mama all but had to hog-tie me.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
