hammer and sickle

Related to hammer and sickle: communism

hammer and sickle

An emblem of the Communist Party. The phrase is sometimes used as a shorthand way to refer to Communism. You don't see flags with the hammer and sickle too often these days, do you? The Red Scare was rooted in fear of the hammer and sickle.
See also: and, hammer
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (one's) best foot forward
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • hammer down
  • 57
  • and the rest
  • and how
  • and how!
  • a penny for them
  • come under the hammer
  • go under the hammer
References in periodicals archive
SPOT the real Lenin: actor Olaf Pooley (right) steps into Lenin's shoes in Hammer and Sickle (ATV 9.0-10.0 and 10.30-11.30)
The draft framework decision to criminalise racism EU-wide should not ban Soviet symbols like the hammer and sickle, a spokesman for EU Justice, Freedom and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said on February 8.
The meeting had begun with a bonanza for bookmakers when 33-1 chance Shatin Venture overturned the hotpot Hammer And Sickle in the Ayr May Novice Stakes.
Holland fell foul of the stewards when he dashed Hammer And Sickle, from a berth near the far side to a position near the stand rails in the Wiseton Novice Stakes.
The Hayward show starts with the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, where the towers of the German and Soviet Pavilions faced each other across the main axis, different mainly in their tops, where the monumental eagle of the Nazis faced the heroic Soviet couple bearing the hammer and sickle.
The conservatives burned an effigy of the bishop, replete with a ski mask and a hammer and sickle on his miter.
They noted that Hungary hasabanned both the swastika and hammer and sickle since the early 1990s.
In the same work, another set of four--a hammer and sickle, a cross, a pair of crossed daggers, and a star--forms a kind of tetragrammaton out of the emblems of communism, Christianity, militarism, and capitalism.
Mark Johnston's speedy Hammer And Sickle should go well in the Norfolk Stakes (3.05), and a good run is expected from Kevin Ryan's Eastern Purple in the Cork and Orrery Stakes (4.20).