crank the handle | Idiomator

Meaning: (business,idiomatic)To perform a process; to do some work.2006, Rebecca Jordan, Kirsty Weir,In Good Company: The essential business start-up guide for women, A & C Black, page229:There are various ways you can do this, including creating capacity by building a strong team, or by setting the sales stream up in such a way that anyone cancrank the handleand keep the products going out and the customer demand coming in.2008,Brad Thor,The Last Patriot, Atria Books:“What do you mean?” said Ozbek. “All he has to do is slide some paper in there, ink the quill andcrank the handle”2009, Nick Gifford,Information Security: Managing the Legal Risks, Australia: CCH:The suspension of one's critical faculty is not possible in a risk management exercsie. It is not simply a “crank the handle” process: intelligent analysis needs to be applied at all times throughout the activity, including critical review of the appropriateness of any methodology for an organisation's specific circumstances.2010,Robert Mnookin,Bargaining with the Devil: When the Negotiate, When to Fight, Simon & Schuster, pages32–33:These five questions provide a framework for analyzing the benefits and costs, opportunities and risks. It won't provide a bright-line test or acrank-the-handlealgorithm. But you shouldn't be looking for that here anyway.

Examples:

EN: -Look. I got my nuts in a ringer now. And I don't like it when people crank the handle, okay?
ES: - Oye mi vida corre peligro y odio que me tomen el pelo.
EN: Can you just crank the handle on that radio?
ES: ¿Puedes girar el dial en esa radio?
ID: Bisa kau putar pegangan di radio itu?
EN: There are just a naturally running mathematical system which by some beautiful feature of the mathematics you crank the handle on the mathematics and out comes the stripes or the spots.
ES: Hay un sólo sistema matemático natural en ejecución que por alguna característica hermosa de la matemática usted gira la manivela de la matemática y el resultado son las rayas o los puntos.
EN: So you input the price, you crank the handle, and the drawer opens.
ES: Así que introducís el precio, le dais a la manivela, y el cajón se abre.
EN: Stick it in the ground, crank the handle, open the spout.
ES: Clávala en el piso, pulsa el manubrio, abre el grifo.
ID: Tancapkan itu ke tanah, Putarkan gagangnya dan buka kerannya.
EN: Now crank the handle so it gets a little tighter.
ES: Gira la manivela para ajustarlo más.
ID: Sekarang putar pegangannya agar lebih kencang.
EN: Get them into the same kind of vise that they have us in. And then crank the handle so hard they beg you to relent.
ID: Buat mereka merasakan hal yang sama seperti kita, dan engkol sekeras mungkin hingga mereka memohon kau melunak.

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