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velvet glove
noun
- an outwardly gentle or friendly manner used to disguise one's firm or ruthless determination.
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While it lasted we literally and constantly meet with the “iron hand under the velvet glove.”
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It was only by gentlest degrees that the iron hand of satire made itself felt under the velvet glove of conventional good manners.
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In the practical world there are two conquering forces—the iron hand and the velvet glove.
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The touch of the would-be iron hand in the velvet glove of faded age made him conscious of his vast advantage over her.
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That auspicious day when the velvet glove will be stripped for ever from the cloven hoof of the German Eagle.
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