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📖 Определения и значения для слова fist

📒 a hand when it is tightly closed with the fingers bent into the palm

  • He punched me with his fist.
  • She clenched her fists to stop herself trembling.
  • He got into a fist fight in the bar.

📒 if you use the words an iron fist/hand when describing the way that somebody behaves, you mean that they treat people severely. This treatment may be hidden behind a kind appearance (the velvet glove).

  • They promised that the army would strike with an iron fist at any resistance.
  • The iron hand in the velvet glove approach seems to work best with this age group.

📒 to make a good, bad, etc. attempt to do something

📒 to make/lose money very fast and in large quantities

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