of/like steel

idiom

: very powerful
He had a grip of/like steel.

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Foster’s view to the north, across the street, was of construction-site plywood, painted dark green, behind which were heavy diagonal legs of steel. Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 For the leaders of today’s cultural industries, films, TV series, albums, even books seem to be no more than widgets on an algorithmic assembly line, as fungible as yards of textile or gauges of steel. Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025 Other airports had ones with concrete bases that protruded above the ground or were entirely above ground and made of steel. River Akira Davis, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025 Others are very bold and can sit through a multi-million dollar negotiation with nerves of steel. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for of/like steel 

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“Of/like steel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%2Flike%20steel. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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