have somebody over a barrel

I'm not going to try to hold them over a barrel.

And I always like doing business with a man who knows he's over a barrel.

And Iraq's production is a little over one million barrels a day.

In 1954 alone the field produced over 31 million barrels of oil.

It has since produced over 18 million barrels of oil.

Said she had some big shot over a barrel and he was mad.

Nothing like having a member of the opposition over a barrel.

Last year, the world consumed just over 70 million barrels of oil every day.

America's daily oil consumption was just over 18 million barrels last year, up nearly 10 percent from 1991.

Imports then were just over six million barrels a day.