In fact, Pauline sometimes threatened to turn the job over to him permanently.
Now the whole experience threatens to turn into an ordeal.
He wasn't doing as she had done: threatening to turn a thief over to the law.
"This threatens to turn us into something of a cartoon, if we weren't already."
He denied everything, so she threatened to turn him in, thinking it would force his hand, because an innocent man wouldn't care.
Meanwhile, the hospital threatened to turn us over to a collection agency.
From this point on, Lucas threatens to turn her in to the authorities.
When the first side ended, she threatened to turn the record over.
"You remember when he threatened to turn me into a lizard?"
She threatens to turn him over to the police if he does not obey her orders.