Saddle
Saddle verb - To place a weight or burden on.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Common collocations
| player | saddle player | try player |
Both words in one sentence
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Stephanie, though, was never given a fair shake thanks to her being used as a Batman Gambit to try to get Tim back in the saddle.
Source: Superior Successor - El Cid Ploy: When Conan is disabled by sorcery before the first battle, his advisers try this (over Conan's objections; Conan himself asked them to strap him into his saddle so he could still lead the charge).
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To get their bicycle to stop, users will often simply slide off the saddle and either sit on the fenderless back wheel or try to catch it between their knees.
Source: Literature / Don Camillo
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