steel hand, velvet glove

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Iron hand" in a v. g. is the only way I've geard it.

JL
Douglas Bigham <TlhovwI at AOL.COM> wrote:
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Does anyone have any info on "a steel hand in a velvet glove" or versions of
it?

-doug

-dsb
Douglas S. Bigham
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas - Austin
http://hometown.aol.com/capn002/myhomepage/index.html


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