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iron fist (plural iron fists)
- (figuratively, idiomatic) Ruthless and usually unrestricted control.
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist.
- An army's tank or cavalry branch.
ruthless control
- Arabic: قُبْضَة حَدِيدِيَّة f (qubḍa ḥadīdiyya)
- Belarusian: жале́зны кула́к m (žaljézny kulák), жале́зная рука́ f (žaljéznaja ruká, literally “iron hand”)
- Cebuano: kamot nga puthaw
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵腕 / 铁腕 (zh) (tiěwàn), 鐵拳 / 铁拳 (zh) (tiěquán)
- Czech: železná ruka f (literally “iron hand”), železná pěst f
- Danish: jernnæve c, jernhånd c (literally “iron hand”)
- Dutch: ijzeren vuist
- Esperanto: fera mano
- Finnish: teräksinen ote (figurative), rautakoura (fi)
- French: main de fer (fr) f (literally “iron hand”)
- German: eiserne Hand f (literally “iron hand”), eiserne Faust f
- Greek: σιδηρά πυγμή f (sidirá pygmí)
- Hungarian: vasököl (hu)
- Italian: pugno di ferro (it) m
- Japanese: 圧政 (ja) (あっせい, assei), 圧制 (ja) (あっせい, assei), 鉄拳 (ja) (てっけん, tekken)
- Kazakh: темір жұдырық (temır jūdyryq)
- Korean: 폭정(暴政) (ko) (pokjeong), 압제(壓制) (ko) (apje), 철권(鐵拳) (ko) (cheolgwon)
- Lithuanian: geležinis kumštis m
- Malay: kuku besi
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: төмөр нударга (tömör nudarga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: jernhånd m or f
- Nynorsk: jernhand f
- Portuguese: punho de ferro m
- Romanian: mână de fier f (literally “iron hand”)
- Russian: желе́зный кула́к m (želéznyj kulák), желе́зная рука́ (ru) f (želéznaja ruká, literally “iron hand”)
- Slovak: železná päsť f
- Spanish: mano dura f (literally “iron hand”), puño de hierro, ordeno y mando
- Swedish: järnhand (sv) c
- Tagalog: kamay na bakal
- Ukrainian: залі́зний кула́к m (zalíznyj kulák), залі́зна рука́ f (zalízna ruká, literally “iron hand”)
- Vietnamese: bàn tay thép
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