- 看过 mailed fist 的人也看了 :
- big stick
- control
- grip
- jackboot
- tight ship
mailed fist 的定义
- superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- brutal or naked power, especially coercive force: the mailed fist hidden in the velvet glove.
mailed fist 近义词
等同于 iron hand
更多mailed fist例句
- The former believed in the role of the state as a provider, while the latter favored an iron fist approach to governance.
- The conservative Christian group mailed out nearly one million cards to supporters calling on them to boycott Disney products.
- The filled out pledge cards are then mailed back to voters shortly before Election Day as a way to remind them to vote.
- La Barbie videotaped himself in the act of committing atrocities and mailed the evidence to The Dallas Morning News.
- Last year he lunged at me with his fist and threatened to kill me again.
- He shut his fist and hit Butterface a weak but well intended right-hander on the nose.
- Aristide picked it up and began to dance and shake his fist at the invisible police.
- She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.
- There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his mouth.
- Once again, the strong, black fist was clinched in the approaching monster's face.