iron grip

iron grip

• That latter certainly would suggest they don't control the series with the iron grip you always say. (출처: USENET)
• The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. (출처: Internet Book List)
• But their iron grip could not contain Solzhenitsyn's reach. (출처: Herald Tribune)
• There were two games which held an iron grip on the #1 spot in the list. (출처: Wikipedia)
• The iron grip of democrats will even control sun spots. (출처: USENET)

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cf. firm grip

• Now that the president is back in his seat, I hope he will take a firm grip and work his way out of the last two months’ confusion.” (출처: The Korea Herald)
• Although the communist party has a firm grip on politics in Vietnam, this sweeping political change marked a watershed. (출처: 세계일보 WT논평)
• Sociologists see this as a big development, creating the potential for democracy to take a firm grip in Korea. (출처: The Korea Herald)

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