brass knuckles
Example Sentences
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If brevity is the soul of wit, it’s also the brass knuckles of one-upmanship on Twitter.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021
Olivar was saddled with the debut of young Czech pianist Lukás Vondrácek, who banged through Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto as if he had brass knuckles on his fingers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2021
Business and civic leaders, in the large corporations and the elite universities, should grow some brass knuckles, too.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2020
He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2019
Did you know Jacques Lacan, the most celebrated psychoanalyst of his time, used to carry a set of brass knuckles?
From Washington Post • May 15, 2018
