Clenching a fist makes people think about power, for example, and holding a heavy clipboard makes them think something is important.

例如，捏紧拳头会让人们联想到力量，拿着一个沉重的文件夹会使人认为这个东西很重要。

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He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.

再愚蠢的人也不会拿自己的拳头当楔子用。

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Hollioake is the best leader of the lot, but the only way the cookie would crumble for him is if he gets the one-day captaincy back and makes a better fist of it than Nasser has.

BBC: Wisden's Tim de Lisle

Only Mr Morino is actually in the process of giving away a fortune he earned for himself, which makes him less prone to wrapping his iron fist in a velvet glove than the other authors, who are all professional philanthrocrats of different kinds.

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