動手腳，讓它跑不出原本的樣子
這一家最貼近核心畫面：有人真的伸手進去，讓原本會贏、會成功的東西垮掉。
verb · C2
To stop an animal in a race from winning, especially a racehorse or a racing dog, by drugging it or by interfering with it in some other hidden way before the race.
對賽馬賽狗動手腳
核心畫面
One way to hold the word: a hand reaches in from the side and takes hold of something that was about to run its own course, so that it no longer does. The clearest version is the night before a race, when someone gets to the horse. Change what the hand takes hold of and you get the rest — a instead of a horse, a plan instead of a , or just your sleeve in the corridor. This is a picture offered to make the senses hang together, not a claim about where the word came from; the packet gives no etymology.
可以想成有一隻手從旁邊伸進來，抓住一件本來要照自己的樣子跑下去的事，讓它跑不成。最清楚的版本，是比賽前一晚有人摸到那…更多收起
可以想成有一隻手從旁邊伸進來，抓住一件本來要照自己的樣子跑下去的事，讓它跑不成。最清楚的版本，是比賽前一晚有人摸到那匹馬旁邊。接著只要換掉被抓住的東西，其他意思就都出來了：換成陪審員，換成一個計畫，或者只是走廊上抓住你的袖子。要說明白：這是為了讓幾個意思串得起來而提供的畫面，不是在說這個字的來源。手上的資料沒有任何語源說明。Three branches
把該中立的人弄到你這邊
這次被抓住的是一個人的判斷。手伸過去的方式是塞錢或恐嚇，結果是這個決定不再屬於他自己。
verb · C2
To get someone to do what you want by secretly paying them or by frightening them, when doing this is against the law. It is used most often about juries, witnesses, officials and anyone whose decision is supposed to be independent.
買通或脅迫使就範
把人攔下來，讓他走不掉
同樣是伸手抓住，但這裡抓的是人的時間和注意力，而且沒有犯法的成分，語氣反而是好笑的。
verb · C2
To catch hold of someone who is passing and keep their attention, usually because you want to ask them for something or talk them into something.
攔住某人（好開口）