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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemical sledgehammer for the mind.
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Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside.
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
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It did so by contrasting the answers from two workers who were busily wielding sledgehammers in a rock quarry.
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No gas, no needle, no sledgehammer .
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That's the heavy sledgehammer that Blake is swinging.
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The lock shattered with a single blow of the sledgehammer and they were in.
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The principle of proportionality - do not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut - is straight forward logic.