Iron Gloves What Does It Mean That Someone Rules With An Iron Hand In A Velvet Glove?
What does it mean that someone rules with an iron hand in a velvet glove? - iron gloves
Did I hear someone say, nodding along lol do not want to seem stupid, but what does this mean?
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Severe, but compassion
an iron hand in hand in a velvet glove:
Used to describe someone who seems sweet but is in fact serious and companies
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something to say, if you are someone who seems to describe the sweet, but is in fact hard and firm.
"To meet any new law, the president has used persuasion, and then force - the iron fist in a velvet glove."
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The iron fist as a symbol of power and control from the beginning of 1700 (the iron fist appeared in 1740), Thomas Carlyle, however, led to coining the term "the iron fist in a velvet glove" in the sense of an autocratic regime, under a soft, Napoleon but it also has other leaders previously attributed. The expression is highly variable, the iron fist as common as iron hand, and d other variants like the fist iron fist and velvet glove.
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Iron fist in a velvet glove - "Disguised strength behavior conceals a sweet personality. Thomas Carlyle wrote in "Brochures Last Day" (1850): "Soft and form of expression, but with unwavering determination of control ..." iron fist in a velvet glove ", as Napoleon defined it." Napoleon, this phrase seems to have arisen. "" The dictionary of commonplaces, "by James Rogers (Wings Books, Originally New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985).
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http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/iron.html
... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun
an iron hand in hand in a velvet glove:
something to say, if you are someone who seems to describe the sweet, but is in fact hard and firm.
eg.To meet new law the president uses persuasion, then the force - the iron fist in a velvet glove
Something to say when someone who seems to describe the sweet, but is in fact hard and firm. To meet every new law the president uses persuasion, then the force - the iron fist in a velvet glove.
Iron = strict and firm.
= Velvet glove is gentle and understanding.
It is a bit of a CONTRADICITION, but says rather less.
Hope this helps.
This means that the rule is fair and equitable, people, unless that force is necessary, and enforce the glove, leaving a very high standard and high performance.
The real meaning is "determination in adversity." My interpretation is, "Dos Caras".
I've heard about the power of an iron hand, but nothing like a velvet glove.
It is not certain, but I suppose that to understand that it is difficult, but it is more likely covered by the quality of the velvet glove ... something
For the love and discipline.
For the love and discipline.
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