battleaxe
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When we think of comedy and marriage, we probably think of “’er indoors” jokes: all those Les Dawson-era gags about henpecked husbands and battleaxe in-laws.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2016
Some of his most striking imagery was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, variously depicted during her premiership as a battleaxe, a blind automaton and a bloody-fanged pterodactyl.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2013
But the performance everyone on set is talking about is Vanessa Redgrave's: she plays Volumnia, the mother who raised Coriolanus as warrior for Rome – more nuanced and less of a battleaxe than is customary.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
Messieurs, my compliments;' then suddenly perceiving Umslopogaas, who was loitering along after us and playing with his battleaxe, he threw up his hands in astonishment.
From Allan Quatermain by Henry Rider Haggard
What the battleaxe of the Dane, the sword of the Norman, the wile of the Saxon were unable to perform, we have accomplished ourselves.
From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Charles Gavan Duffy
