steel hand, velvet glove

Douglas Bigham TlhovwI at AOL.COM
Thu Oct 7 21:27:22 UTC 2004


And you would be correct.  Google results (unchecked for context):
"steel hand..." 258
"steel fist..." 136
"iron hand..." 508
"iron fist..." 2440

But does anyone know anything about the origins of the phrase?
-doug

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



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