英语词汇hammer and tongs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hammer and tongs
词源	hammer and tongs. “To go at it hammer and tongs” means to literally or figuratively fight with all one’s resources with no hold barred, with might and main. The blacksmith has become a rarity and a curiosity, but this 17th-century expression allud- ing to his art lives on. It refers of course to the brawny smitty taking red-hot metal from the forge with his long-handled pin- cers, or tongs, and vigorously beating it into shape on the anvil with his hammer.
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