释义 |
cold steelWeapons such as swords or knives collectively: I say to you, give lawbreakers cold steel!...- Swords clashed, cold steel shining in the candlelight.
- Yet to Muscat's credit, though he plays by the sword he accepts being put to the cold steel when it is wielded by those publicly lambasting him.
- So much for rhetoric, always preferred by politicians and other hail fellow well met charmers to the cold steel of logic.
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