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iron fist (plural iron fists)
- (figuratively, idiomatic) Ruthless and usually unrestricted control.
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist.
- Symbol of an army's tank or cavalry branch.
ruthless control
- Arabic: قُبْضَة حَدِيدِيَّة f (qubḍa ḥadīdiyya)
- Cebuano: kamot nga puthaw
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵腕／铁腕 (zh) (tiěwàn), 鐵拳／铁拳 (zh) (tiěquán)
- Czech: železná ruka f
- Danish: jernnæve c, jernhånd c
- Dutch: ijzeren vuist
- Esperanto: fera mano
- Finnish: teräksinen ote (figurative), rautakoura (fi)
- French: main de fer (fr) f
- German: eiserne Hand f, eiserne Faust f
- Greek: σιδηρά πυγμή f (sidirá pygmí)
- Hungarian: vasököl (hu)
- Italian: pugno di ferro (it) m
- Japanese: 圧政 (ja) (あっせい, assei), 圧制 (ja) (あっせい, assei)
- Kazakh: темір жұдырық (temır jūdyryq)
- Korean: 폭정 (ko) (pokjeong), 압제 (ko) (apje)
- Lithuanian: geležinis kumštis m
- Malay: kuku besi
- Mongolian: төмөр нударга (tömör nudarga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: jernhånd m or f
- Nynorsk: jernhand f
- Portuguese: punho de ferro m
- Romanian: mână de fier f
- Russian: желе́зный кула́к m (želéznyj kulák), желе́зная рука́ (ru) f (želéznaja ruká) (iron hand)
- Slovak: železná päsť
- Spanish: mano dura f, puño de hierro, ordeno y mando
- Swedish: järnhand (sv) c
- Tagalog: kamay na bakal
- Vietnamese: bàn tay thép
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