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Blackmail Extort Money Secret Threatening Reveal I Stop

Phrase/Idiom blackmail someone
Definition If you blackmail somebody, you extort or take money from them by using their secret against them and threatening to reveal it to others.
Example I need help to stop that man because he has been blackmailing me for some time.

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