| 单词 | iron heel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron heel iron heel n. (an instrument of) ruthless or unrelenting destruction or oppression, esp. political oppression. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] threat971 duressc1320 defoulc1330 tyrantry1340 tyrannyc1368 oppressinga1382 overleadinga1382 tyrandisea1382 overlayingc1384 oppression1387 oversettinga1398 thronga1400 overpressingc1450 impressionc1470 tyrantshipc1470 tyrannesse?a1475 aggravation1481 defouling1483 supprissiona1500 oppressmentc1537 conculcation1547 iron hand?1570 thrall1578 tyrannizing1589 tyranting1596 ingrating1599 pressure1616 regrate1621 overpressure1644 slavishness1684 iron heel1798 1798 W. Munford Almoran & Hamet in Poems & Compositions in Prose ii. 56 Oft he exalts the wicked, and permits Their iron heel to crush the virtuous head. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. xi. 383 The green crop had no time to ripen, ere it was trodden down under the iron heel of war. 1893 McClure's Mag. 1 375 He was being held up as ‘The Czar’—a man whose iron heels were crushing out American popular government. 1984 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. a3/1 He sees rate-capping as ‘the iron heel of Whitehall that is threatening to crush democratic local government in Britain’. 2007 Rev. Afr. Polit. Econ. 34 508/1 Both South Korea and Taiwan..developed under the iron-heel of brutal dictatorships. < as lemmas |
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