Aid
Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Tied up
Tied up adjective - Kept occupied or engaged.
Both terms in one sentence
- Realizing their new rival is the US, the Soviets make sure (through sabotage and covert aid to Japan) that America is tied up with the Pacific War.
- He brings his enthusiastic aid in taking out other criminal gangs, and soon Capone is holding a victory banquet... where the guests are tied up and he walks among them with a baseball bat, beating up traitors and those who've displeased him, explicitly invoking this trope when it's Frank's turn.
Source: Shoot the Dangerous Minion -
Child Mage: Klarion the Witch-Boy is an absurdly powerful little brat who, in his first appearance: cures a deadly poison, conjures up a feast, banishes a monster with a fork, and summons the Demon to his aid while tied up and suspended from the ceiling.
Source: Comic Book / Etrigan
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