brass knuckles
Example Sentences
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As they pulled into the fenced lot, a guard in a security booth asked if the vehicle had any knives, guns, Mace or brass knuckles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
If brevity is the soul of wit, it’s also the brass knuckles of one-upmanship on Twitter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Business and civic leaders, in the large corporations and the elite universities, should grow some brass knuckles, too.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2020
He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2019
Did you know Jacques Lacan, the most celebrated psychoanalyst of his time, used to carry a set of brass knuckles?
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2018
