| 词汇 | mailed fist |
| 词源 | mailed fist. The term mailed fist means “aggressive military might” and though it refers to the mail armor of the medieval knight, who even wore steel gloves, it came into use only in rel- atively recent times. The phrase derives from an order Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave to his brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, when he sent him to China in 1897 at the head of forces that were to restore order after two German missionaries had been killed. “If any man dares impugn our right,” the Kaiser de- clared, “smite him with your mailed fist!” |
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