| 单词 | hammer and pincers |
| 释义 | > as lemmashammer and pincers hammer and tongs (colloquial): with might and main (like a blacksmith showering his blows on the iron taken with the tongs from the forge-fire). hammer and pincers: a phrase descriptive of the noise made by a horse striking the hind-foot against the fore-foot: cf. click n.1 and int., forging n.1 hammer and sickle: an emblem consisting of a crossed hammer and sickle, used as a symbol of the industrial worker and the peasant, e.g. on the national flag of the U.S.S.R.; hence used allusively of Soviet-type Communism. Thor's hammer, hammer of Thor: (a) the hammer carried by the god Thor in Norse mythology; (b) a figure somewhat like a cross (= fylfot n.); (c) a prehistoric ornament resembling a hammer. up to the hammer (colloquial or slang): up to the standard, first-rate, excellent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > national ravenOE thistle1488 red cross1523 St George's cross1548 Britannia1605 red rose1618 British Lion1687 shamrock1712 leek1714 American eagle1782 rising sun1787 white horse1814 Bird of Freedom1825 Union Jack1847 maple leaf1860 meatball1919 red star1920 hammer and sickle1921 chakra1947 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > other types of communism neo-Communism1923 post-communism1931 hammer and sickle1935 Titoism1947 Naxalism1970 Eurocommunism1976 1708 Brit. Apollo 20–25 Aug. I'm now coming at you, with Hammer and Tongs. 1799 Sporting Mag. 14 187 To go hammer and pincers, is to over-reach and strike the hinder toe upon the fore-heel. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 119 For Hammer and Pinchers, or over-reaching. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 278 Our ships were soon hard at it, hammer and tongs. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 149 By Thor's hammer, boys, I have been an outlaw but five years now. 1882 M. Peacock in Academy 7 Oct. 259 You shall mark your food with the hammer of Thor, and think you are signing a holy sign. 1884 W. C. Russell Jack's Courtship in Longman's Mag. III. 241 What cooking there was in it was up to the hammer. 1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xxi. 277 He turns to me, and we went at it hammer and tongs. 1921 Times 20 Sept. 4/6 The subjects of the..designs [of Bolshevist postage stamps] are symbolical of Labour..the 20 roubles a shield charged with the device of a hammer and sickle crossed. 1933 H. G. Wells Shape of Things to Come iii. §11. 330 There was still no discord with Russia; there the blazon of the wings was put up side by side with the old hammer and sickle. 1935 E. Weekley Something about Words 27 A new ideal in literature and poetry, a kind of ‘hammer and sickle’ conception of artistic composition. 1937 H. G. Wells Brynhild v. 65 It might be possible to indicate whether the flavouring [of a book] were sexual, intellectual, left, right, or detective, by some variation in the general design, an obelisk, for example, the hammer and sickle, the swastika or what-not. 1958 Listener 5 June 928/2 An Algiers broadcast said the choice was ‘between the Hammer and Sickle and the Cross of Lorraine’. < as lemmas |
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