sledgehammer• The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.• If that is true, he is waving a magicwand with a sledgehammer on the end.• Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside.• For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemicalsledgehammer for the mind.• That's the heavy sledgehammer that Blake is swinging.• No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer.• The lockshattered with a singleblow of the sledgehammer and they were in.• It did so by contrasting the answers from two workers who were busily wieldingsledgehammers in a rockquarry.
Originsledgehammer
(1400-1500)sledge“sledgehammer”((11-21 centuries)) (from Old Englishslecg) + hammer