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an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps)
a mind like a steel trap
he's as sharp as a steel trap - a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey
How To Use steel trap In A Sentence
- When finished, we first placed our blacksmith's shop upon it, that is to say, our anvil, and large vice, and other valuable articles belonging to blacksmithery, bar-iron, and steel traps, and alas! John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey
- he's as sharp as a steel trap
- a mind like a steel trap
- A tiger was found with a steel trap sunk into its forepaw, and a week later, the park was closed and more than 40 poachers arrested.
- Considering how often we are told that Avon père and fils are cold-blooded killers with steel traps for minds, they are both incredibly stupid.
- A scientist must have a mind like a steel trap.
- ‘Old Eph’ finally took a misstep in the night, and the jaws of the steel trap Clark had hidden in the bear's wallow bit into his right front paw.
- Sethu Sethunarayanan work worked with a mechanical engineer to design a stile steel trap.
- It was a facer, Yetive and Beverly felt as though a steel trap suddenly had been closed down upon them.
