1. Rigorous or ruthless control
   "she rules the office with an iron fist"; "it takes an iron fist to contain the dissenting factions"

Derived forms: iron fists

Type of: control

• hard lead
• hard liquor
• hard news
• hard palate
• hard put
• hard right
• hard rock
• hard roe
• hard roll
• hard rubber
• hard rush
• hard sauce
• hard sell
• hard shoulder
• hard solder
• hard steel
• hard surface
• hard tick
• hard time
• hard times
• hard up
• hard water
• hard wheat
• hard worker
• hard-and-fast