force someone's hand (English, verb)
expansion: force someone's hand (third-person singular simple present forces someone's hand, present participle forcing someone's hand, simple past and past participle forced someone's hand)
Senses:
glosses: Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: forces someone's hand
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forcing someone's hand
tags: participle
present
form: forced someone's hand
tags: participle
past
form: forced someone's hand
tags: past