0 a large, heavy hammer with a long handle, used for breaking stones or other heavy material, or for hitting posts into the ground, etc.
1 a large, heavy hammer with a long handle, used for jobs like breaking stones or hitting posts into the ground
I wish that the books on language were as easy to follow, but at the same time am relieved that they lack the pile-it-on sledgehammer polemic.
The current law can deal with an infringement or illegality without the whole of the rate being quashed under this sledgehammer of an amendment.
We have felt the whirlwind and the sledgehammer impact of the recession.
The sledgehammer hit our main export and growth sectors.
Why bring a sledgehammer to crack a walnut?
That would leave judicial review, which is an extraordinarily heavy sledgehammer, as the only really effective means of redress.
He decided to use the legislative sledgehammer—option 5—whereas most reasonable people would have concluded that the evidence pointed to option 2 or 3.
Taken together, those measures amount to a sledgehammer, which might be appropriate for a serious complaint.
