📚 noun • entry_id 58046
big stick
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jarabe de palo
Significant power to punish or coerce.
Too much debate theory is based on power rather than reason. Kritiks are used as big sticks to avoid one of the duties closely associated with debating — research.
Wilson publicly rejected both the "big stick diplomacy" of Teddy Roosevelt and the "dollar diplomacy" of William Howard Taft; […]
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