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Steel trap

noun

An acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps). "A mind like a steel trap"

A trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey.

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"Steel trap" Quotes from Famous Books

... is not always a bright and satisfying success, and yet there are so many little articles of vertu about a kitchen, that if you fail on the coop you can generally bring away something else. I brought away a nice steel trap ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... before falling asleep again, my mind was busy with one particular thought—that was, how I should manage in case the rat should return? How was I to destroy—or, at all events, get rid of—this most unwelcome intruder? I would at that moment have given a year of my life for the loan of a steel trap, or any trap that would take rats; but since the loan of a trap was out of the question, I set my brains to work to invent some contrivance that would enable me to rid myself of my unpleasant neighbour: neighbour I might call him, for I knew ...

— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid

... river's brink—these were among the varied items of the hungry otters' food. Life was indeed hard to maintain. And, to crown the misfortunes of the ice-bound winter, Lutra's matrimonial affairs were once more cruelly disturbed: her mate was caught in a steel trap that Ned the blacksmith had baited and laid in the meadows near the village bridge. He had marked the otters' wanderings by their footprints in the snow, and had then matured ...

— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees

... said the woodsman, "the steel trap we use. We ain't got no use fer the tricks of the Injuns, though I'm goin' to tell ye all them, in good time. An' we ain't much on new-fangled notions, neether. But the old, smooth-jawed steel-trap, what kin hold when it gits a grip, an' not tear ...

— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... tried to catch her in their traps. But she was too cunning. She had had one good lesson when she was young. She had put the toes of one foot into a steel trap. The trap had snipped them off. After that she was ...

— Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans • Edward Eggleston

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