crack the whip

基本解释

He tried to crack the whip, but it was of no use.
他试著挥那鞭子，但是无济于事。
The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who has so far done little to crack the whip for peace, has offered, at long last, to enter the fray as ringmistress for the first act.
迄今为止，美国国务卿康多莉扎·赖斯（Condoleezza Rice）几乎没有为和平进程积极奔走过，但最终她已表示愿意作为第一幕的导演（ringmistress）介入双方冲突。
OK, you'd better get back to work unless you want me to crack the whip and start yelling at you.
好了，你最好回去工作了，除非你要我开始狠狠地对你吼。

Britain's telecoms regulator, Oftel, has been criticised for failing to crack the whip over British Telecom.
ECONOMIST: High-speed Internet access
Yet it is one thing for the commission to crack the whip on the smalls (earlier this year Belgium fell into line).
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
And one of the criticisms that's been raised is maybe he didn't crack the whip early enough or didn't really kind of heave it over the finish line himself earlier.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton