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HUBLOT Posted 13 years ago
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Use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
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If you use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, you use much more force than is needed:
50 police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Do Americans use the phrase "use a sledgehammer to crack a nut"?
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If you use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, you use much more force than is needed:
50 police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Do Americans use the phrase "use a sledgehammer to crack a nut"?
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I’ve never heard it before. The Free Dictionary indicates that the idiom is British and Australian, but it would be fine in AmE, too.
- I’ve never heard it before.
- The Free Dictionary indicates that the idiom is British and Australian, but it would be fine in AmE, too.
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I’ve never heard it before. The Free Dictionary indicates that the idiom is British and Australian, but it would be fine in AmE, too.
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HUBLOTDo Americans use the phrase "use a sledgehammer to crack a nut"?Some of them may use that, but the only American version of that saying that I am aware of is "to use a hammer to kill a fly".
CJ
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