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red-hot poker
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Origin of red-hot poker1
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Example Sentences
He broke three of her ribs with an umbrella and on another occasion hit her with a red-hot poker.
It would have gone right through the Melbourne or the Brisbane like a red-hot poker through a board.
He had just thrown the stick upon the floor with which he had been beating her, and was drawing from the stove a red-hot poker.
And perhaps, after all, the red-hot poker business is rather stale at the end of the Nineteenth Century!
The red-hot-poker grows stiff and straight, but the ragged sailor goes uncombed and untidy still.
Sausages, property red-hot poker, costume of motley, slippers and spectacle case.
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