a stick to beat smb. with

a stick to beat smb. with
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    Our prisons are going to be dynamite some day. There's plenty of sticks to beat the inmates with if they don't behave but precious few carrots of hope (The Sunday Times). The report critical of the goverment's handling of the crisis gave the opposition party another stick to beat the government with

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