iron hand
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Roget 739:
severity;
strictness,
harshness
etc.
adj.;
rigor,
stringency,
austerity;
inclemency
etc.
(pitilessness)
914.1;
arrogance
etc.
885;
precisianism†.
arbitrary power;
absolutism,
despotism;
dictatorship,
autocracy,
tyranny,
domineering,
oppression;
assumption,
usurpation;
inquisition,
reign of terror,
martial law;
iron heel,
iron rule,
iron hand,
iron sway;
tight grasp;
brute force,
brute strength;
coercion
etc.
744;
strong hand,
tight hand.
hard lines,
hard measure;
tender mercies [Iron.];
sharp practice;
pipe-clay,
officialism.
tyrant,
disciplinarian,
precisian†,
martinet,
stickler,
bashaw†,
despot,
hard master,
Draco,
oppressor,
inquisitor,
extortioner,
harpy,
vulture;
accipitres†,
birds of prey,
raptorials†,
raptors†.
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