brass knuckle
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- → voir brass knuckles
Locution nominale modifier
brass knuckle \Prononciation ?\
- Poing américain.
- Leo Grex, The Brass Knuckle, 1964
- Carleton Beals, Henry G. Alsberg, Brass Knuckle Crusade: The Great Know Nothing Conspiracy, 1820–1860, 2012
- Darcy G. Richardson, Others: Third Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party, volume 1, Chapter 7: The Brass-Knuckle Crusade, 2004
- The morning after the election I was attacked down the street by old man Sally, with brass knuckles, […] Then I was cut by George Moss and Mike Sally, and they struck me in the head with a brass knuckle, and then one came up and hit me […] — (Congressional Edition, United States Congress, 1879)
- They were partial to roundhouse punches with brass knuckles and swipes with switchblades. Ripping the mirror off the wall, Bourne slammed its edge into a brass knuckle. The mirror cracked into a dozen shards, and Bourne grabbed […] — (Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum’s™ The Bourne Dominion, 2011)
- After some careful analysis, I think brass knuckles are the new octopi, which were the new owls, which were the new sparrows. Check it out! There are about 200 different brass knuckle–related items on Etsy right now. Sell your stock in octopi and jump on the brass knuckles train. — (Grace Dobush, Crafty Superstar, 2011)
Notes modifier
- Plus souvent utilisé au pluriel.