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idiomhold sb to ransomused when you disapprove because someone is able to make a person or group do what they want, especially by threatening to make their situation very difficult:Now that so much business is done by computer, a small group of discontented workers might be able to hold the whole country to ransom.Without some control of food prices, a community could be held to ransom by a group of wealthy farmers.
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