A lot of people are under the cosh financially at present.
Examples from the Corpus
cosh• In a crisis it could have doubled as a draught excluder or, if the pub got rough, as a cosh.• The Millwall brick, for example, was a newspaperfolded again and again and squashed together to form a cosh.• Guided by the sound, Dunn moved in and whacked him on the head with a spring-loadedcosh.• Everybody's under the cosh financially these days.• He was still turning when the coshstruck him behind the ear.