fist

Converse of object

• clench: His fists clenched behind the laptop he had erected on his knee in sheer anger.
• shake: There's more great photos of the gig here than you could shake a fist at.
• glove: All strikes are allowed in the ring, unlike western boxing, which prohibits all but strikes with gloved fists.
• mail: He still has the velvet glove on the mailed fist.
• raise: But, unlike the usual thing, he did not hide the face: he raised the fist and he shouted slogans.
• fly: Flying fists mar a set that recaptures the potency of these punk legends.

Preposition: on

table: The General leaned one fist on the table next to him.

Adjective modifier

• closed: Once a child is given permission to approach a dog, she should present her closed fist for the dog to sniff.
• tight: Hands were clenched into tight fists to conserve warmth.
• decent: Now, to his credit, Doug makes a pretty decent fist of justifying his presence as the driving force of his own novel.
• bare: Firstly rather than your bare fists, you have a weapon, or pair of weapons, at your disposal.
• hidden: War, peace and anti-capitalism THE HIDDEN hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist.
• left: Lane raises his left fist, then his right.

Modifies a noun

• salute: As ever we gave the clenched fist salute in response and fight on.
• fight: Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down.

Modifying Another Word

tight: But i can't comment on the product quality, i ' m too tight fisted to buy the set!

Noun used with modifier

iron: Moreover, key moments reveal the iron fist beneath the velvet glove.

Preposition: in

• glove: This is the iron fist in the velvet glove of CONI's rhetoric of incorporation and inclusiveness.
• air: We got 11 possibly 12 fist in the air tracks.

Preposition: of

fury: But there's more to Hong Kong filmmaking than roundhouses and fists of fury.