iron+rule
11rule someone with a rod of iron — rule (someone) with a rod of iron British, American & Australian, American & Australian to control a group of people very firmly, having complete power over everything that they do. For 17 years she ruled the country with a rod of iron. My uncle… …
12rule with a rod of iron — rule (someone) with a rod of iron British, American & Australian, American & Australian to control a group of people very firmly, having complete power over everything that they do. For 17 years she ruled the country with a rod of iron. My uncle… …
13IRON GUARD — IRON GUARD, right wing, antisemitic movement and party in Romania. In 1927 nationalist students, headed by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, founded the Legion of Archangel Michael, which fostered the Iron Guard mass movement in 1930 and merged with it.… …
14Iron cage — is a sociological concept introduced by Max Weber. Iron cage refers to the increasing rationalization of human life, which traps individuals in an iron cage of rule based, rational control. He also called such over bureaucratized social order the …
15rule with an iron fist — see ↑rule, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑fist …
16rule with a rod of iron — rule with an iron fist, govern by force …
17rule (somebody) with a rod of iron — rule (sb/sth) with a rod of ˈiron idiom to control a person or a group of people very severely Main entry: ↑ruleidiom …
18rule (something) with a rod of iron — rule (sb/sth) with a rod of ˈiron idiom to control a person or a group of people very severely Main entry: ↑ruleidiom …
19Iron Virgin — were a Scottish rock band of the 1970s, who in image and style have been compared to contemporary glam acts such as Slade and The Sweet.Discovered by Decca Records producer Nick Tauber in Edinburgh, the band was signed to the label s progressive… …
20rule — rule1 W2S2 [ru:l] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(instruction)¦ 2¦(advice)¦ 3¦(normal/usual)¦ 4¦(government)¦ 5¦(grammar/science etc)¦ 6 the rule of law 7 the rules of natural justice 8 rule of thumb 9 make it a rule (to do something) …
