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Iron fist   /ˈaɪərn fɪst/   Listen
Iron fist

noun
1.
Rigorous or ruthless control.  "It takes an iron fist to contain the dissenting factions"





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... have doubted it, by what I observed of them on board the prison-ship. They would scold, quarrel and fight, by slapping each other's chops with the flat hand, and cry like so many girls. I have often thought that one of our Yankees, with his iron fist, could, by one blow, send monsieur into his nonentity. Perhaps such a man as Napoleon Bonaparte, could make any nation courageous; but there is some difference between courage and bravery. I have been amused, amid captivity, on observing the volatile Frenchman ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse


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