sledgehammer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sledge·ham·mer /ˈsledʒˌhæmə $ -ər/ noun [countable] TZa large heavy hammer 大锤
Examples from the Corpus
sledgehammer• The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.• If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.• Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside.• For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemical sledgehammer for the mind.• That's the heavy sledgehammer that Blake is swinging.• No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer.• The lock shattered with a single blow of the sledgehammer and they were in.• It did so by contrasting the answers from two workers who were busily wielding sledgehammers in a rock quarry.Origin sledgehammer (1400-1500) sledge “sledgehammer” ((11-21 centuries)) (from Old English slecg) + hammersledge·ham·mer nounChineseSyllable
hammer a large Corpus heavy
sledgehammer
sledge‧ham‧mer /ˈsledʒˌhæmə $ -ər/
noun [countable]
sledge‧ham‧mer /ˈsledʒˌhæmə $ -ər/
noun [countable] Date: 1400-1500
Origin: sledge 'sledgehammer' (11-21 centuries) (from Old English slecg) + hammer
a large heavy hammer
Origin: sledge 'sledgehammer' (11-21 centuries) (from Old English slecg) + hammer
