Go at it hammer and tongs - Idioms by The Free Dictionary. Hammer and Anvil Speech before the Reichstag, Decem(English translation excerpts) From: Buchners Kolleg Geschichte, Das Kaiserreich 18 (Bamberg: C.C.
Its brain is said to be made of fire, as it came from a furnace. Simply put, one side out-maneuvers the other so they are sandwiched between two lines and continually attacked.
Bernhard von Bülow was the German Secretary of State and later served as Chancellor. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling.
