the iron heel

the iron heel
железная пята, иго [по названию книги Дж. Лондона]

Sid found himself... between two ladies at outstanding glamour. One was Mae Letzig, who had been whisked by the lost from under the iron heel of the Nazis in Vienna. (N. Coward, ‘Collected Short Stories’, ‘A Richer Dust’) — Сид оказался... между двумя исключительно интересными дамами. Одна из них, Мэй Летциг, была спасена хозяином, который вырвал ее из-под железной пяты фашистов в Вене.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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