blackmail

Related to blackmail: Emotional Blackmail

blackmail (someone) into (something)

To coerce someone to take a certain action by threatening to expose something about them. I've known him for years and can definitely blackmail him into silence. The maid blackmailed her famous employer into paying her an exorbitant sum of money.
See also: blackmail
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blackmail someone into doing something

to force a person to do something by threatening to reveal some secret about the person. Are you trying to blackmail me into doing what you want? They blackmailed me into doing it.
See also: blackmail
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • blackmail (someone) into (something)
  • blackmail into doing
  • entrap (someone) with (something)
  • entrap (someone) in(to) (something) with (something)
  • leave oneself wide open for
  • leave (someone, something, or oneself) (wide) open for (something)
  • leave (someone, something, or oneself) (wide) open to (something)
  • leave open
  • leave yourself wide open to something
  • entrap
References in periodicals archive
What this instigates is a repetitive domino chain of blackmail, with blackmailers becoming the blackmailed, and the cycle repeating itself, with the money in turn changing hands.
The laptop and smartphone that the accused had used in the alleged blackmail were seized.
"The audio recordings are fake and staged by those who try to blackmail BDI officials", stressed Xhaferi and added that BDI filed charges in the Prosecution for disclosing the compromised materials.
Speaking at a dinner held by his party in the eastern province of Van, DemirtaE- criticized Erdoy-an saying that some blackmail videos had been released by Erdoy-an in the past.
ISHMAEEL AKBAR, 32, Kingsbury Road, Tipton: Admitted false imprisonment, blackmail and GBH with intent.
A PARAMEDIC who tried to blackmail two men has been jailed for 10 months.
| Ishmaeel Akbar, 32, of |Kingsbury Road, Tipton: Admitted false imprisonment, blackmail and GBH with intent.
A Kent Police spokesman said: "His crimes came to light when one of his victims, a teenage boy, came forward to report that Chidlow had forced him to send indecent images of himself over social media and messaging services, and had subsequently used the indecent images to blackmail him into sexual acts."
Why should the trial for racketeering, blackmail be secret?
KATIE Price revealed that a Merseyside man was charged with blackmail following the theft of sexually explicit pictures.
THREE people have appeared in court accused of trying to blackmail Coleen Rooney after she lost her mobile phone.
Summary: Blackmail against women is on the rise in Saudi Arabia with more complaints to the religious police, according to press reports, prompting some women to take matters into their own hands.
The leaders of the blackmail conspiracy, Gregg Avery, 41, Natasha Avery, 39, and Heather Nicholson, 41, were founder members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) a front organisation which organised strategy and attacks on the firms and their staff, often under the badge of the Animal Liberation Front.
A MAN jailed for five years over a pounds 50,000 gay sex blackmail plot against a member of the Royal Family is to fight his conviction.
Two brothers were appearing in court today charged with kidnap and blackmail.