heavy hand, with a

Idioms  

1. In a clumsy manner, as in You can't use that delicate equipment with a heavy hand . [Mid-1600s]

2. Overbearingly or severely, as in Children brought up with a heavy hand often rebel in later years . [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Finnerty had laid his heavy hand with a strong grip on Lord Victor's forearm, the pressure, almost painful, conveying to that young man's mind an inarticulate threat that if he voiced a warning something would happen him; he read its confirmation in a pair of blue Irish eyes that stared at him from below contracted brows.

From Project Gutenberg

Moyese dropped the map and the pencil and his heavy hand with a thud on the desk and laughed noiselessly down into the creases of his fat double chin and into the wrinkling rotundity of his white vest.

From Project Gutenberg