big stick
Example Sentences
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“We don’t go in with the big stick to begin with,” Morling said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
“I had a big stick, and I was banging on the box, really whaling on it. So he wasn’t just plopped on his feet. Because I wanted him to be alighting down to the ground.”
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
All the commitments are voluntary - there is no big stick.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2021
Despite the big stick, keeping the quiet has never been easy.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2021
I stepped into the woods, looked around, could not see the crow, but noticed a big stick nest in a scrabbly pine.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
