turn of the screw

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Onestepin agradualimpositionofrestrictions.1980,New Scientist, volume88, number1226, page348:There is every chance that as far as the government's budget cutting goes, the nextturn of the screwwill see the SRC squeezed, despite the fact that the council has, quite rightly, been spared from the worst of the earlier cuts.

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