Sentence examples for iron lid from inspiring English sources

It had served him, he said, "like an iron lid".

What ails the economy now is not corporate taxes but the iron lid on spending, clamped tight for two years.

Then he lifted the iron lid and let it rest back on its hinges, and he was just bending to the bag of charcoal when he saw something move beneath the slats of the grill.

Most of the Arab-Muslim world has neither, so when the iron lid of autocracy comes off they fall back, not on liberalism, but Islamism, sectarianism, tribalism or military rule.

Well, today we're going to talk about Iraq because that experience offers some hugely important lessons for how to manage the transition to democratic governance of a multisectarian Arab state when the iron lid is removed.

Then he went to the grill, set down the platter of chicken and sausage and the fat red oblong slab of fish, and lifted the heavy iron lid, half hoping there'd be another rat in there — or a snake, a snake would be even better.

I must have cried out; a moment later a pair of iron lids seemed to slam against my skull, and the animal went slack, sliding, with a horrible, human sigh of disappointment, to the ground at my feet.

(A coal chute, for those too young to remember, was a hole under the sidewalk with a dim-glass-and-iron lid).

It was one of those elegant parlor stoves that wore a nickel crown, or mitre, and this mitre, when you moved it aside, automatically raised the hinge of an iron stove lid.

My favorite chicken-in-a-pot pot is Le Creuset's casserole made of enameled cast iron, but any lidded Dutch oven or large heavy pot, even an earthenware casserole, will do.

Jim Lahey, who owns Sullivan Street Bakery in Manhattan, recommends placing an enamel-covered cast-iron pot and lid in the oven at 500 degees for an hour (creating plenty of ambient heat), then lowering the dough into the pot on a parchment sling and covering it.