have somebody by the throat

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Ain’t we going to wait for him? What do you think? Todger practically had him by the throat.

I knew he was all right, he were screaming but I couldn’t - they were both screaming, Cathy and Gary both, and he got me by the throat. He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they weren’t his kids - everything, I don’t know, I couldn’t breathe.

He said the English fielders began to chat to him in the last session and he knew then he had us by the throat. I can’t abide that and I have set out to make us more aggressive, but I have not entirely succeeded because we are still not being hard enough on the field.

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