under the cosh

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

under the cosh

1. (UK, informal) subjected to (figurative) pressure; under the gun
   • 2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales‎^[1]:

     Having been under the cosh Swansea were enjoying a promising spell and Begovic had to deny Graham having a free header before Swansea's record signing secured victory with five minutes remaining.

Further reading

• “under the cosh” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “under the cosh”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “under the cosh”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.