英语词汇“to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

British, Australian, and New Zealand. to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut and variants: to take a disproportionately drastic approach to the solution of a relatively small problem. Also (North American) to use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat and variants.

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1851 L. C. Judson Sages & Heroes Amer. Revol. i. 235 He at once became the nucleus around which a band of patriots gathered and formed a nut too hard to be cracked by the sledgehammer of monarchy.]

1923 G. B. Clarkson Industr. Amer. in World War xix. 359 The Board never used a sledgehammer to kill a gnat.

1934 C. Stead Salzburg Tales 19 He loved to crack a walnut with a sledge-hammer.

1934 Times 7 Nov. 7/4 The great National Government had taken hold of this sledge-hammer to crack this nut.

1944 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 107 184 They might occasionally let that favourable position mar their work by using a sledge-hammer to kill a gnat.

1997 Daily Mail 15 Jan. 42/3 The taxman is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut by asking thousands of people to appear before magistrate-style tribunals to explain why they are behind with their tax affairs.

单词	to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
释义	> as lemmas to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut British, Australian, and New Zealand. to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut and variants: to take a disproportionately drastic approach to the solution of a relatively small problem. Also (North American) to use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat and variants. ΚΠ 1851 L. C. Judson Sages & Heroes Amer. Revol. i. 235 He at once became the nucleus around which a band of patriots gathered and formed a nut too hard to be cracked by the sledgehammer of monarchy.] 1923 G. B. Clarkson Industr. Amer. in World War xix. 359 The Board never used a sledgehammer to kill a gnat. 1934 C. Stead Salzburg Tales 19 He loved to crack a walnut with a sledge-hammer. 1934 Times 7 Nov. 7/4 The great National Government had taken hold of this sledge-hammer to crack this nut. 1944 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 107 184 They might occasionally let that favourable position mar their work by using a sledge-hammer to kill a gnat. 1997 Daily Mail 15 Jan. 42/3 The taxman is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut by asking thousands of people to appear before magistrate-style tribunals to explain why they are behind with their tax affairs. extracted from sledgehammern. < as lemmas
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