Iron Lady

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1. 1

   A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and…

   A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding.

   • Known as the "Serbian Iron Lady" as a result of her hard-line nationalism and rabidly anti-Muslim views, Plavsic was a close ally of Radovan Karadzic.
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2. 2

   The iron maiden at Nuremberg.

   • As Mrs. Degen stoutly declared, those seeking German embraces would do well to remember the Iron Lady of Nuremberg.
   • The enterprising young reporter jubilantly began constructing a substantial iron net on the frail foundation of circumstantial evidence and that net began to close as tight as the Iron Lady of Nuremburg^([sic]) round Dean Cardigan.
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   A strong-willed and unrelenting female leader.

   • On the one hand, the patriarchal discourse constructs the identity of 'an iron lady' for the successful woman leader.
   • Del Ponte only takes the blame for the last incident, acknowledging that she realized too late that she had been played by the “iron lady” from Republica Srpska.
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      Alternative form of iron maiden.

      • It tried one's nerves to look on the rack that had pulled men to pieces, on the "iron lady" which opened in front and then embraced and crushed her victim with sharp spikes, and on the sword that had cut off hundreds of heads.
      • In a castle dungeon in Nuremberg, Germany is a huge, medieval "iron lady" torture device. Shaped like a woman, the iron lady opens to reveal huge spikes, once used for torture and death.
      • But the best torture of all was the iron lady; it was a box in the shape of a lady sitting down.
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      A sewing machine.

      • But, the iron lady's needle is not like the instrument of a flesh and blood seamstress.
      • Not only thin materials, but Johnny's jeans and corduroys, which the old iron lady used to chew up and swallow and then just moan and die on.

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