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Steel trap

noun

An acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps). "A mind like a steel trap"

A trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey.

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"Steel trap" Quotes from Famous Books

... think, and perhaps you'll pick us up. I've great confidence in you; there are ever so many things I want to talk to you about. I never congratulate any girl on marrying; I think they ought to make it somehow not quite so awful a steel trap. I suppose Pansy oughtn't to hear all this; but that's what she has come to me for—to acquire the tone of society. There's no harm in her knowing what horrors she may be in for. When first I got an idea that my brother had designs on you I thought of writing to you, to recommend ...

— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2 (of 2) • Henry James

... said Peter, with his flashing smile. "I'll be dead in an hour. The steel trap of ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... cumbersome, slow-witted, "knew women"—at least, women of their own world, like Felice—better than he. On the other hand, his intelligence was no such perfected instrument as Hicks's, as exact as logarithms, as penetrating as a scalpel, as uncoloured by emotions as a steel trap. ...

— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris

... i dont see what the mater is with my hens. i havent got 1 egg this week. father said there was a rat in the koop. i got a steel trap of Sam Diar and tonite i set it in the koop. i put a peace of cheeze on it. tomorrow morning i ges mister rat wont steal ...

— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute

... kidneys. It has been observed, that the eating of the flesh of some trapped animals has produced severe symptoms of poisoning. The pain and horror of having a limb bleeding and mangled in a most cruel steel trap, the struggles which only add to the misery, slowly being done to death during hours or even days of torture, has produced in their bodies virulent poisons. Leucomaine poisons have also been produced by the violent and prolonged exertions ...

— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan

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