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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

... broken water of the rapids. The mink followed vindictively, but in the foamy stretch below the falls he lost all track of the fugitive. Angry and disappointed he scrambled ashore, and, finding a dead sucker beside his runway, seized it savagely. As he did so, there was a smart click, and the jaws of a steel trap, snapping upon his throat, rid the wilderness of one of its most bloodthirsty and implacable marauders. A half-hour later the master of the pool was back in his lair, waving his delicate, gay-coloured fins over the ...

— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts

... along the creek, the wise old Owl concluded from the fox signs he had already seen, and from the condition of the soil on a cut bank, that it was a desirable place in which to set a steel trap for foxes. Laying aside his kit, he put on his trapping mits, to prevent any trace of man-smell being left about the trap, and with the aid of his trowel he dug into the bank a horizontal hole about two feet deep and about a foot in diameter. He wedged the chain-ring ...

— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming

... 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, ...

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

... savage little beast, though probably unable to see its enemies, was showing its yellow teeth and squalling in its deadly anger, the jaws coming together with a snap like that from the sudden springing of a steel trap. ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin

... and not dangerous, but its contemptible character could not prevent a wave of compassion that came over me when I saw one poor creature caged in a wooden box and holding up the bloody stump where its fore foot had been torn off by the cruel and barbarous steel trap. ...

— On the Trail - An Outdoor Book for Girls • Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard

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