crack the whip

Jagger, now the band’s senior member at age 80, has said that the Stones recruited Watt because they needed an outside figure to “crack the whip” — a role the producer has fulfilled on recent albums by fellow veterans such as Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop.

In an interview last year as McCarthy was seeking reelection, Jack Pandol Jr., a Republican strategist, said the congressman was a cross between “Gen. Patton and the Energizer Bunny. He can crack the whip. He is a survivor. His enemies have taken a shot at him more than once and he still gets up.”

It was time to crack the whip.

“Gazing wistfully at my future home while I wait for James to crack the whip on the contractors and herd the cats,” Saylor wrote.

“He can crack the whip. He is a survivor. His enemies have taken a shot at him more than once and he still gets up.”