blackmail (someone) into (something)
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.
- blackmail
- 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