iron boot

He quickly tried to pull off the iron boots, without any luck.

Instead, he forced his eyes to trace the god’s form, starting with his black iron boots, each one as large as a coffin.

Had it not been so, we might be “nuancing” our way under the iron boot of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.

Like walking up a steep hill with heavy iron boots, only you can never get to the top of the hill because it keeps getting higher and higher and the boots get heavier and heavier.

We are clearly at war with radical Islam and nothing short of an iron boot will be needed to stamp it out.