Watch full lenght episode of elementary S05E13 over a barrel, play or download episode for free. CLJ7 futures: latest news on gold prices for Crude Oil - Electronic Apr 2017, from MarketWatch. Origin. This is an American phrase and first appeared in the mid- 2. It is supposed that it alludes to the actual situation of being draped over a barrel, either to empty the lungs of someone who has been close to drowning, or to give a flogging. Either way, the position of helplessness and in being under someone else's control is what is being referred to. The first reference to the phrase used with that meaning that I can find is rather later than might be expected - 1. That's in a cartoon from the Pennsylvania newspaper The Clearfield Progress. The cartoon writer's colloquial use of the phrase and the lack of any explanation of it implies that that the audience was expected to be familiar with it. Given that, we may yet find an earlier citation. In the following year Raymond Chandler made what appears to be an punning reference to the phrase, in The Big Sleep - referring to a gun barrel. Some day you might use that gun again. Then you'd be over a barrel. ![]() ![]() Oil prices suffered from a fifth straight session decline on Friday to tally a weekly loss of just over 9%, settling at their lowest level since late November. Racing issue over a barrel Neighbors urge zoners to deny. Another example of their outright lack of transparency to all of us is that in January of 2017. In Over a Barrel a man takes hostages, including Joan, and threatens to execute them unless Holmes finds the person responsible for the death of his son.
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