When I was growing up in New York City there was a cunning little device that we called the Chinese Finger Trap a woven straw cylinder about three or four inches long, with an opening at each end just large enough for a child's finger to be inserted. Once you put a finger into each end, the trap was sprung. The harder you tugged in opposite directions in an effort to get free, the more the woven cylinder stretched and pulled tight around each finger. Only by pushing inward, by moving counter to the direction in which escape appeared to lie,could you get free. So it is with entrapping situations. The tighter one pulls, the greater the conflict between the lure of the goal and increasing cost of remaining in pursuit of it
And the tighter on pulls. the greater the trap's bite