What a twister!

What's your favorite tongue twister?

That twister. He's a contortionist.

I heard a twister hit Waco.

When the cow flies high and the ox flies low, there probably is a twister.

We'll go on a twister that'll make Omar the soused philosopher of Persia look like an anaemic on a goat's milk diet.

But treating force and diplomacy as distinct phases of foreign policy gives the negotiating parties the sense that American power lacks purpose and resolve. Diplomatic ripening sometimes requires the mediator to be a manipulator and an arm twister.