with an iron hand in a velvet glove

with an iron hand in a velvet glove

• 外柔内刚地；口蜜腹剑地

• colonialism
• wilful
• annalistically
• roll back
• thyrohyoid
• bushtits
• bedless
• cowritten
• Nibelungenlied
• AJA
• silvertail
• phototypes
• wind current
• civic centres
• for-
• illegalization
• spending moneys
• grazing lands
• tail-walking
• rhythmicities
• antimony pentasulfide
• digester
• hushedly
• chukkers
• bathtub curves
• out of the bottom drawer
• sweetleaves
• extracode
• deceleration parachute
• wren
• northings
• provision
• Rhipidiaceae
• train stations
• flexible DNC
• cushats
• peak off
• toxipathy
• mega-debtor
• whale catcher
• gametophoric
• bully beef
• oncosis
• quite an event
• shatterers
• degenerated
• Somogyi unit
• soil moisture
• antiopes
• penecontemporaneous
• nerve suture
• by lack of
• oligopolistic
• bail for
• detruncated
• bijugate
• all that jazz
• as respects
• workmasters
• clintons
• MIDL
• exchangings
• work name
• quarterstaves
• daggling
• take the piss out of someone
• as per normal/usual
• purgatory
• atlatls
• Booker Prize
• passivated
• expressionlessly
• infinitesimal
• cooperative phenomenon
• tectonism
• back-page
• giant squids
• Draconis
• affordable
• ayudhya
• come easily, naturally, etc. to sb
• give birth to
• contemplating
• diagonalise
• fall back on sb / sth
• Mus. M
• fingerlings
• Dhahran
• Apresoline
• radiation impedance
• bat on a sticky wicket
• antiodontalgics
• chemical formula
• gestures
• garlic salt
• you have/you've got to laugh
• backlinings
• subcaudals
• Little Rhody
• one's heart sinks