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adv. (context idiomatic English) With tools indicating seriousness of intent and capability of harm.
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Disambiguation: Not to be confused with Hammer & Tongs.
Hammer and Tongs is the second album from the Scottish rock group Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie. It was recorded in Germany in 1989, at Berlin's Hansa Ton Studios just as the Fall of the Berlin Wall occurred. The album sat on the shelf for almost 18 months, in which time the band were transferred across EMI record labels, from Capitol to Parlophone, who released two singles from the album in 1990. Parlophone sold the band's record deal to Radioactive Records and MCA, who released Hammer and Tongs in the United Kingdom in early 1991 and encouraged the band to record a new song " Now We Are Married" to promote the release.
Later that year, Radioactive, and their partners MCA, repackaged the album for international release by including several stand-out tracks from the band's debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags and eponymously re-titling the album as Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.
Usage examples of "hammer and tongs".
Dear heart, in order to do that you would have to go at your subject hammer and tongs, never allow one article to be forgotten before you write another.
They had been together again for all of ten minutes, and already they were going at it hammer and tongs.
That was quite enough for a boy like Corin and in a second he and the Dwarf were at it hammer and tongs.
That was all Tom wanted, and the next instant he went at Andy hammer and tongs.
First I had to rearrange the shift schedule, since our third shift is now off on the Enterprise, then I spent twenty minutes going at it hammer and tongs with Matt.
She quickly learned, though, that the hammer and tongs symbol represented Nantzee itself, and she knew that the starburst represented the Church.
She quickly learned, though, that the hammer and tongs symbol repre¬.
After setting aside the hammer and tongs, Dorrin carries the heavy tongue out into the corner for finished work and then lugs back in the heavy leather harness, which he lays on the workbench.
He missed the hammer and tongs in his hands, the white-hot metal giving off sparks as his blows shaped it.
He missed the hammer and tongs in his hands, the white- hot metal giving off sparks as his blows shaped it.