to tie sb's hands

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• Tie Up My Hands — Single by British India from the album Guillotine Released 30 June 2007 (2007 06 30) (see release history) …   Wikipedia

• tie one's hands — index handcuff Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• tie someone's hands — To render someone powerless • • • Main Entry: ↑hand …   Useful english dictionary

• tie one's hands — {v. phr.} To make (a person) unable to do anything. Usually used in the passive. * /Since Mary would not tell her mother what was bothering her, her mother s hands were tied./ * /Charles wanted to help John get elected president of the class, but …   Dictionary of American idioms

• tie one's hands — {v. phr.} To make (a person) unable to do anything. Usually used in the passive. * /Since Mary would not tell her mother what was bothering her, her mother s hands were tied./ * /Charles wanted to help John get elected president of the class, but …   Dictionary of American idioms

• tie\ one's\ hands — v. phr. To make (a person) unable to do anything. Usually used in the passive. Since Mary would not tell her mother what was bothering her, her mother s hands were tied. Charles wanted to help John get elected president of the class, but his… …   Словарь американских идиом

• tie someone's hands — verb to render one powerless to act, to thwart someone This contract would have tied my hands …   Wiktionary

• tie one's hands — phrasal : to make one unable to act or to proceed in an action her secrecy tied his hands …   Useful english dictionary

• tie — [tī] vt. tied, tying or tieing [ME tien < OE tigan, tegan; akin to teag, a rope: for IE base see TOW1] 1. to fasten, attach, or bind together or to something else, as with string, cord, or rope made secure by knotting, etc. [to tie someone s… …   English World dictionary

• tie — [n1] fastening attachment, band, bandage, bond, brace, connection, cord, fastener, fetter, gag, hookup, joint, knot, ligament, ligature, link, network, nexus, outfit, rope, strap, string, tackle, tie in, tie up, yoke, zipper; concept 680 tie [n2] …   New thesaurus

• tie up — tie [n1] fastening attachment, band, bandage, bond, brace, connection, cord, fastener, fetter, gag, hookup, joint, knot, ligament, ligature, link, network, nexus, outfit, rope, strap, string, tackle, tie in, tie up, yoke, zipper; concept 680 tie… …   New thesaurus