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单词 strongman act
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strongman act
General attributive, as (in sense 1) strongman act, etc., (in sense 2) strongman government, etc.
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1879 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 9 Nov. 1/7 If the reply to our demands is the disorganization of the republic and the uprearing of the strong man government, so be it.
1890 Era 4 Jan. 7/2 The pair are not able to escape from a burlesque strong man show.
1894 G. M. Adam Sandow on Physical Training iv. 29 At the chief theatres he sought employment as a strongman, but strongman exhibitions..were not then in vogue.
1913 Congregationalist & Christian World 11 Sept. 343/2 I can see no hope for peace in Mexico except in a return to the strongman rule.
1915 Sat. Evening Post 6 Feb. 7/1 I've known her ever since she was a kid,..her father doing a strong-man act in the concert.
1943 Billboard 13 Mar. 14/3 They do the regular type of comic-and-straight aero, with strongman stuff thrown in for good measure.
1962 C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare ix. 122 A strong-man government.
1972 P. Rogers Grub St. 51 The stage of the Windmill tavern..was used for strongman acts.
1988 W. Shawcross Shah's Last Ride (1989) iii. 53 The British were..looking for a ‘strongman solution’ to the problem of keeping their influence in Iran.
2000 Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) (Nexis) 19 May b4 The Atlantic event in Charlottetown will be the biggest strongman contest ever held in the Maritimes.
2012 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Aug. 6 The vacuum that would follow the end of strongman rule would take some filling.
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