big stick
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“He had a big stick and looked like Moses or something, walking to the promised land,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We don’t go in with the big stick to begin with,” Morling said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Several leaders took "a great big stick" to the previous government on the issue, historian and author Patricia O'Brien says.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2022
“I had a big stick, and I was banging on the box, really whaling on it. So he wasn’t just plopped on his feet. Because I wanted him to be alighting down to the ground.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
I threw him a big stick, which he used to pull the bookcase closer.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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