arm-twisting

1. 1.

   persuasion by the use of direct personal pressure

   “some gentle arm-twisting produced the desired result”

   “no amount of arm-twisting will get me to agree”

   Broaderpersuasion

Questions about arm-twisting

What does arm-twisting mean?

arm-twisting means "persuasion by the use of direct personal pressure".

How many syllables are in arm-twisting?

arm-twisting has 3 syllables and divides as arm--twi-sting under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is arm-twisting a common word?

arm-twisting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.