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hammer and tongs
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hammer and tongsadverb
With tools indicating seriousness of intent and capability of harm.
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Hammer and Tongs
Disambiguation: Not to be confused with Hammer & Tongs. Hammer and Tongs is the second album from the Scottish rock group Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie. It was recorded in Germany in 1989, at Berlin's Hansa Ton Studios just as the Fall of the Berlin Wall occurred. The album sat on the shelf for almost 18 months, in which time the band were transferred across EMI record labels, from Capitol to Parlophone, who released two singles from the album in 1990. Parlophone sold the band's record deal to Radioactive Records and MCA, who released Hammer and Tongs in the United Kingdom in early 1991 and encouraged the band to record a new song "Now We Are Married" to promote the release. Later that year, Radioactive, and their partners MCA, repackaged the album for international release by including several stand-out tracks from the band's debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags and eponymously re-titling the album as Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.
Etymology and Origins
Hammer and Tongs
A corruption of “Hammer and Tongues.” A wordy warfare is well described as a hammering of tongues; hence the saying: “They went at it hammer and tongs” (tongues).
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hammer and tongs in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hammer and tongs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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