force someone's hand »
Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.
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give someone the chair »
To execute a person by means of the electric chair.
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hospital pass »
A poorly executed pass to a team-mate causing the receiver to present an easy target for a defender, and thus be tackled hard.
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shell out »
To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
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