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strong man

/strawng-man, strong-/US // ˈstrɔŋˌmæn, ˈstrɒŋ- //UK // (ˈstrɒŋˌmæn) //

强人,强壮的人,壮汉,壮士

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural strong·men.

    • : a person who performs remarkable feats of strength, as in a circus.
    • : a political leader who controls by force; dictator.
    • : the most powerful or influential person in an organization or business, by reason of skill in the formulation and execution of plans, work, etc.

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Examples

  • Many parts of Paris were this way until the interventions of Baron Haussmann, whose 19th-century redesign was made possible with the force of a military strongman.

  • The responsibility lies with a strongman regime that has ignored all caution.

  • The most successful strongmen have all known how to do this.

  • The cult of victimhood is a fundamental part of the strongman.

  • The impulse that leads people who are fearing to change to seek solace with a strongman ruler who tells them what to do, who says I am your voice—this is not new.

  • The New York Daily News declared that “Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has unleashed a weapon of mass distraction.”

  • Egyptian strongman al Sisi may be more intent on obliterating Hamas than the Israelis are.

  • As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion.

  • Naw Kham held his ground, and became the undisputed local strongman.

  • Björnsson is an Icelandic strongman competitor who won the 2011 Strongest Man in Iceland contest.

  • Back of the Refresher, at about eye-level, are three Venusian coconuts that a Hittite strongman threw there during a major brawl.