Hakuluettelo:
Käännös:
death grip (suomeksi)
- Määritelmät:
- An extremely tight grip.
- The grip of something dead or dying.
- : ''I gently tore the bloodied piece of paper out from her '''death grip'''.''
- * (quote-book, author=Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, authorlink=Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, title=Jungle in the Clouds, year=1940, passage=The '''death grip''' of the Umbrella Ant soldiers is so tenacious that the natives often use them to suture wounds.)
- A grip that kills.
- : ''The wolf held the chicken in a '''death grip''' until it stopped moving.''
- * (quote-book, author=Spencer Walpole, authorlink=Spencer Walpole, title=A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, edition=revised, location=London, publisher=w:Longmans, Longmans, Green and Co., year=1912, volume=IV, page=280, oclc=500038473, passage=At the outset Mahmoud commanded Mehemet to withdraw his forces and to lay his grievances before his Sultan. He might as well have ordered the lion to loose his '''death-grip''' on the roe.)
- * (quote-journal, author=Boyce Rensberger, title=Only 80,000 miles separate 2 stars locked in ‘death grip’ of newly found binary system, url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138997760.html, newspaper=(w, The Washington Post), date=20 October 1986, page=A3, passage=Astronomers have discovered a double-star system in which the two members of the pair are just 80,000 miles apart — one-third the distance between Earth and the moon — and the smaller, locked into a “'''death grip''',” zooms around the larger at the surprising rate of once every 11 minutes.)
- A perilous situation or stalemate where failure or death is imminent.