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verb ADV. beautifully, carefully, properly Her clothes were always beautifully ironed. PHRASES freshly/newly ironed a neat pile of freshly ironed shirts | need ironing My jeans need ironing., noun metal ADJ. rusty | cast, corrugated, galvanized, wrought a hut with a corrugated iron roof | pig | scrap VERB + IRON make, produce, smelt Germany produced enormous quantities of coal, iron and steel. | be rich in, contain foods that are rich in iron | be made from/(out) of, be cast in a bridge made of wrought iron IRON + VERB go rusty, rust IRON + NOUN ore mining iron ore locally | bar, ingot | filings | industry | foundry, works | deficiency patients with iron deficiency | tablets I was put on iron tablets for my anaemia. tool ADJ. cool, hot, warm | electric, steam | travel VERB + IRON use Use a cool iron on synthetics. PHRASES run an iron over sth I just need to run an iron over my shirt, then I'm ready.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with IRON, Also see PUMP IRON; STRIKE WHILE THE IRON'S HOT. iron hand Rigorous control, as in He ruled the company with an iron hand. This usage is sometimes put as iron hand in a velvet glove, meaning "firm but seemingly gentle control," as in She runs the town with an iron hand in a velvet glove. [c. 1700]
American Heritage Idioms