Sentences with phrase «crack of a sledgehammer»

Being able to rip down buildings with a vast array of weapons (including the satisfying crack of a sledgehammer!)

Not exact matches

«This bad news should not be used cynically to justify the creation of an ID card sledgehammer to crack the passport fraud nut.»

The proof of that came this morning with the announcement that Labour's Sarah's Law is to be extended nationwide — a law under which in the trial period 90 % of those reported upon by an assortment of nosy neighbours, local gossips, and the paranoid, were found to be guilty of nothing — perhaps one of the most sledgehammer to crack a nut and most intrusive of all of Labours laws.

I used to live on a property with many black walnut trees but we didn't bother eating the nuts because the shells are much harder than English walnuts and you have to use a sledgehammer to crack them, which of course then smashes your nut.

And finally, D'Arcy Jenish writes about the October Crisis of 1970 in Legion Magazine (September, 2010) that «Tommy Douglas, leader of the federal New Democratic Party, accused Trudeau of using «a sledgehammer to crack a peanut,» and as well «A quarter of a century later, in a memoir published in 1996, longtime Conservative aide and adviser Hugh Segal wrote that «Civil liberties, including the right to free assembly, the right to free speech and other fundamental rights (were) suspended across the land.