Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

When I sit down with my team before an engagement, sometimes they are horrified as I say I don't want to read the biographical brief because I prefer to prise information out of people. It becomes like a game. The stories that come out, I could write a book about.

British Royalty

Anne Enright

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Irish Author

Gina Miller

Ever since David Cameron took it on himself to prise open Pandora's box and call the E.U. referendum, the only thing that's been predictable has been the utter unpredictability of what has followed.

Guyanese Activist

Margaret Halsey

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

American Author

Howard Staunton

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

English Celebrity

Used when describing a physical act to separate items that are stuck or to open.

Physical Action

Often used in a very literal sense, involving manual or physical effort.

Literal Use

A tool is often needed to achieve the prising action.

Tool Requirement

It's used metaphorically to describe the extraction of non-physical things.

Figurative Use

Indicates that getting something like a confession takes significant effort.

Conversational Effort

Emphasizes the need for persistence to succeed in the prising process.

Persistence Required

 to these rock faces to prise them off you really need wooden levers and ropes and you can pull them off and a lot of people pulling tying well you can see the one right right in front of us there if you could get hold of that you could

Rebuilding Stonehenge PIPE...

 these can only be reached during a brief lull in the currents the ducts must quickly prise the mussels free before the tide starts to turn

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 seem to work together the larger soldiers prise open the mouth parts so smaller workers can squeeze through and

Ants vs Crab PIPE Natural...

 to their size as some look for a in its leg armor others prise open its body plates like a tin opener

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 this female walrus is shielding her puppy if he can just prise her off

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 This female walrus is shielding her pup. If he can just prise her off

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 this female walrus is shielding her pup if he can just prise her off

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 puppy if he can just prise her off the bear's claws and teeth can't

Prise

Physical Action

Literal Use

Tool Requirement

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