do something with one arm/ hand tied behind your back
dělat něco hravě, levou rukou
She said they did everything in teams, for the honour, and what was the good of that, when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back?
As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests, however, it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back.
She was so used to this sort of conversation that she could, as it were, verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back.