iron heel
noun
(An instrument of) ruthless or unrelenting destruction or oppression, especially political oppression.
Origin
Late 18th century.
- quarter clock
- quarter cloth
- quarter column
- quarter-crack
- quarter cut
- quarter day
- quarterdeck
- quarterdecker
- quarter distance
- quarter-elliptic
- quarter-elliptical
- quarterer
- quarter evil
- quarter face
- quarter fee
- quarter-final
- quarter-finalist
- quarter-gallery
- quarter-galley
- quarter girth
- quarter girth measure
- quarter grain
- quarter ground
- quarter guard
- quarter-gunner