🗓️ Idiom: Crack the Whip (v)
💬 Meaning
- To use your authority to push people to work harder or enforce discipline.
- Often used when a manager becomes stricter to increase productivity or efficiency.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The boss had to crack the whip to get the team to meet the deadline.
- When productivity dropped, she cracked the whip and tightened control over the project.
- He usually has a laid-back style, but he’ll crack the whip if results aren’t delivered.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
After weeks of missed targets, the manager had no choice but to __________ the whip.
Answer
crack
2. Choose the correct meaning of “crack the whip”:
A) Take a break from work
B) Enforce strict discipline or pressure
C) Encourage teamwork through rewards
Answer
B) Enforce strict discipline or pressure
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“The manager started demanding more from the staff.” → Change the sentence using: crack the whip
Answer
The manager started cracking the whip.
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