one's pound of flesh

one's pound of flesh something one is strictly or legally entitled to, but which it is ruthless or inhuman to demand 合法但有悖情理的要求。 [ORIGIN: with allusion to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice]

• intelligence amplifier
• stinky
• generatively
• house staff
• all-dreaded
• amplitude resonance
• compound pistil
• tried
• Kalevala
• learnfare
• C layer
• vote out
• two-bagger
• phase-locked communication
• foreboded
• pantographers
• grift
• farrago
• a man of (many) parts
• be on about sth
• famine prices
• pot luck
• clottiest
• literae humaniores
• pangamic acid
• rings
• keep a secret
• gravity water
• orometer
• gaselier
• aeolian harps
• sorcerous
• Graham's law
• have a rat in the loft
• frustrated internal reflectance
• wheatworm
• weatherology
• hyperphysically
• oscillatory wave
• venographically
• relative hypsography
• refrain from
• objective prism
• hymnodical
• debaucheries
• uraemia
• self-pollinator
• hellfire
• manded
• Mitteleuropa
• hysteria
• spies
• warby
• vorticity equation
• decaffeinized
• data registers
• send to Coventry
• heliophobes
• gemmiparous
• freeze-dryer
• English pluck
• National Industrial Recovery Act
• sea grapes
• eccentricities
• arborised
• molecular
• boulder train
• uniramous
• pneumatometer
• autarchically
• coronaled
• fixed bayonet
• O-ethyl-O-p-nitrophenyl phenylphosphonothioate
• anomalies
• orchid tree
• feel an affinity for
• cratered
• monospermous
• masterly
• ink-horn term
• capacitates
• embrutes
• crash-landing
• transactivating
• intermeddling
• Decker, Thomas
• come due
• Errors Freaks and Oddities Collectors Club
• have a soul above buttons
• not taking any
• molecular-beam epitaxy
• the Renaissance
• self-willing
• command guidance
• acrocarpous
• bacterial endocarditis
• sepals
• spot-welder
• sidh
• gainliness