Preposition: of

• track: Just an incredibly funky sledgehammer of a club track which sounds like nothing anybody from this " pop " world has produced.

Adjective modifier

• proverbial: For a professional it is an essential tool, but it may be the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a walnut for many.

• big: The world's biggest sledgehammer is being used to crack a very small nut.

• funky: Just an incredibly funky sledgehammer of a club track which sounds like nothing anybody from this " pop " world has produced.

• large: The sound of a million large sledgehammers being used to crack one small walnut.

Converse of object

• use: However, care should always be taken not to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

• take: We do not take a sledgehammer to crack a ' nut.

• wield: So its default setting is to wield the sledgehammer at every nut, as it were, that it can see.

Converse of subject

• hit: He sees a man get hit by a sledgehammer, but he comes back and kills his murderer.

Modifies a noun

• approach: The university always uses a sledgehammer approach to us.

• blow: Colin Wills, the last tin miner in St. Agnes will strike a symbolic sledgehammer blow linking the past with the present.

• subtlety: In other words, the beauty is ironic, albeit done with sledgehammer subtlety.