Idiom
bring down the hammer
Meaning
To treat very harshly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The boss will bring down the hammer if you are late again.”
“After the team missed the deadline for the third time, the manager decided to bring down the hammer on everyone involved.”
“The regulatory agency finally brought down the hammer on the corporation, imposing massive fines for their long-standing history of environmental negligence.”
Examples
simple
“The boss will bring down the hammer if you are late again.”
contextual
“After the team missed the deadline for the third time, the manager decided to bring down the hammer on everyone involved.”
complex
“The regulatory agency finally brought down the hammer on the corporation, imposing massive fines for their long-standing history of environmental negligence.”
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