use a bigger hammer

[Jonathan Lighter]

2005 Alvin Kernan _The Unknown Battle of Midway_ (New Haven: Yale U.P.) 56 [ref. to 1942]: No one had a more agreeable boss....His standard advice when he saw us making a difficult repair was, "If you can't fix it, get a bigger hammer."

  JL


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