0 a tool for breaking the shell of a nut, so that you can remove and eat the softer part inside
1 a tool for breaking the shell of a nut
The non-maintained special schools are caught in a nutcracker.
We do not feel that we can leave such schools between the two halves of a nutcracker.
In fact the effect of this is to put the islanders themselves in the jaws of the nutcracker.
Most of our companies are placed in a nutcracker.
There is increasing evidence that the food manufacturing industry is in a severe nutcracker.
For those caught in the nutcracker, however, the problem is considerable.
It may be wrong to arm it with a sledgehammer when perhaps a nutcracker would be more appropriate.
Why is there this invidious distinction between doorknocking nutcrackers and nutcracking doorknockers?
