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View synonyms for at gunpoint

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Also, at knifepoint . Under coercion, as in I'm going to hold him at gunpoint for that raise he promised me last year . Both these phrases were at first used literally and later also figuratively. [Mid-1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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