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Iron Fist

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What does Iron Fist mean?

noun

  1. An army's tank or cavalry branch.
  2. (figuratively) Ruthless and usually unrestricted control.

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The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #120
His huge shoulder heaved and he sent an iron fist smash into Magnus’s bland Mongolian visage, laying him on the lawn as flat as a starfish.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonThe innocence of Father BrownProject Gutenberg ebook #204