main strength and awkwardness

main strength and awkwardness

Pure, unreasoning force of strength; brute force. The car is completely stuck in the mud—the only way we're getting it out is with main strength and awkwardness. You can't just get this thing to work with main strength and awkwardness. We'll need to devise some new method of operating the mechanism.
See also: and, awkwardness, main, strength
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

main strength and awkwardness

Fig. great force; brute force. They finally got the piano moved in to the living room by main strength and awkwardness. Lifting the antique table must be done carefully. This is not a job requiring main strength and awkwardness.
See also: and, awkwardness, main, strength
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • by main force
  • hard power
  • be out in force
  • force on
  • force on (someone or something)
  • force in
  • haul into (some place)
  • ignorance
  • brute force and (bloody) ignorance
  • force (someone or something) into (something)
References in classic literature
Three of the warriors were sitting upon me, trying to hold me down by main strength and awkwardness, and they were having their hands full in the doing, I can tell you.
The Land That Time Forgot