英语词汇“mailed fist”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mailed fist n. [after German mit gepanzerter Faust (see quot. 1897)] (the threat or show of) armed force; (subsequently) the display of political ruthlessness.

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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > physical coercion > threat or display of

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mailed fist1897

1897 tr. Emp. Will. II of Germany in Times 17 Dec. 7/1 But should any one essay to detract from our just rights or to injure us, then up and at him with your mailed fist [Ger. fahre darein mit gepanzerter Faust].

1898 19th Cent. Jan. 164 Japan is a foe who will not be terrified by the mailed fist of Germany.

1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iii. i. 16 The first rude contact with the mailed fist brought him back to the sober realities of life.

1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now xxii. 125 The velvet glove was off and the mailed fist was bared.

1990 Guardian 28 May 17/8 ‘I will not act differently,’ he says stubbornly, when accused of serving as a fig leaf for a government which cares less for Jerusalem than he, of being the silk glove that masks the mailed fist.

单词	mailed fist
释义	> as lemmas mailed fist mailed fist n. [after German mit gepanzerter Faust (see quot. 1897)] (the threat or show of) armed force; (subsequently) the display of political ruthlessness. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun] > physical coercion > threat or display of big stick1897 mailed fist1897 1897 tr. Emp. Will. II of Germany in Times 17 Dec. 7/1 But should any one essay to detract from our just rights or to injure us, then up and at him with your mailed fist [Ger. fahre darein mit gepanzerter Faust]. 1898 19th Cent. Jan. 164 Japan is a foe who will not be terrified by the mailed fist of Germany. 1920 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism II. iii. i. 16 The first rude contact with the mailed fist brought him back to the sober realities of life. 1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now xxii. 125 The velvet glove was off and the mailed fist was bared. 1990 Guardian 28 May 17/8 ‘I will not act differently,’ he says stubbornly, when accused of serving as a fig leaf for a government which cares less for Jerusalem than he, of being the silk glove that masks the mailed fist. extracted from mailedadj. < as lemmas
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