Pale cadaverous limbs slowly poke out from beneath it like pincers from a seashell.
On May 9 the Germans in Crimea abandoned Sevastopol, caught as they were between Soviet pincers from the mainland north of the isthmus and from the east across the Strait of Kerch.
Labour faces a pincer attack from Kadima on its right flank and from a reinvigorated Meretz, the most peace-minded of the mainstream parties, on its left.
Ethiopian and Kenyan forces, with logistical backing from the Americans, French and British, have squeezed it in a pincer movement from the west and south.
People with mental disorders were casualties of a pincer movement from right and left.
Lenore Taylor has written about the pincer move from the Greens that is getting Bill Shorten off-message in his otherwise effective campaign each day.
High-priced development was marching toward the canal in a pincer movement, from Carroll Gardens on one side and Park Slope on the other.
Clare Lizzimore's immaculately timed production also gets a standout performance as Thomas from Sam Troughton whose thickset body and solid features seem to crumble and dissolve under the pincer attack from his two colleagues.
But they now face a determined pincer movement from the FBI, UK police, and other hackers – including The Jester, who has been relentless in his pursuit of them for more than a fortnight.
In fairness Farage stuck to the high road and didn't go for a counter-character assassination, facing a pincer attack from Brand and the audience, members of whom sporadically shouted and booed him during the debate.
