brass knuckles
Example Sentences
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Small groups of extremists, some members sporting brass knuckles, showed up at one farmers’ demonstration last month in the southern city of Montpellier.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2024
It’s hard to figure out where the heart of a city council district is when its shape reminds you of brass knuckles.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2023
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
