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What does iron grip mean?

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Noun
  1. (colloquial) The manner in which the act of holding or restraining something or someone, can only be described as extremely tight.
  2. Having a firm hold of, or on, something, either literally or figuratively.
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She was in Russia before the Socialists lost their iron grip on people there.
It all depends, I suppose, on whether his whips still have the backbenchers in their iron grip.
She felt as if an invisible hand was upon her neck, strangling her with an iron grip.
If it wasn't for her iron grip all those developing sexual urges during the Eighties, I don't reckon they would be having half as much fun now.
Until the public shakes loose the iron grip of these money-grabbing profiteers, crime and the prison population will continue to rise.
Meanwhile, the team maintained their iron grip on the trainer and jockey championships.

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